How to convert CD to MP3?

Turn your audio CD to MP3 music with One-click CD to MP3 Converter software. This outstanding CD to MP3 converter uses Windows right-click menu for conversion, so you may convert CD to MP3 and other formats simply right-clicking on your CD icon! It's easy: right-click the CD icon to convert a whole CD to MP3 or right-click particular songs to convert a part of CD to MP3.
How to convert CD to MP3

Why converting CD to MP3?

Converting CD to MP3 or say to FLAC format you get digital music files that may be copied and played on any MP3 device like iPOD, car audio, MP3 player or multimedia phone. It's much easier to keep all your CD music in MP3 format, you don't need a bulky CD that contains just 10-20 songs. If you want to save original CD quality though, you may use alternative digital formats such as FLAC and APE. It's easy to reach with One-click CD to MP3 conversion tool.

Convert CD to MP3, WMA, FLAC, WAV, OGG, APE files.

One-click CD to MP3 Converter gives you extra conversion abilities, not just converting CD to MP3. You can choose among MP3, FLAC, WMA, WAV, OGG, APE formats. Thus you may convert CD to MP3, CD to WMA, CD to FLAC, CD to WAV, CD to APE and CD to OGG. One-click CD to MP3 Converter offers three presets of quality to save your time and custom settings for advanced users. Whatever the format you selected you get a clear music without clicks and noises in just one mouse click!

Convert entire CD to MP3 or pick the songs you like.

One-click CD to MP3 Converter allows you to choose a part of a CD to be converted. You may right-click a whole CD or browse the CD content and right-click the songs you want.

Why the One-click CD to MP3 Converter needs Internet connection to download titles for a CD?

When you turning a CD to MP3 the converter needs an extra information about each song on a CD. If this information cannot be reached you will get songs named as 'track01.mp3' which doesn't give you an idea what these songs are? Downloading songs titles from the Internet One-click CD to MP3 Converter adds name, artist, album and genre information to each song converted from CD to MP3 and properly renames it.

Preserve CD quality converting to FLAC and APE

Converting your CD to MP3 you get music that sounds good enough, but sometimes you need to save original CD quality which MP3 format cannot provide. In such a case use FLAC or APE lossless formats. These files keep original CD quality "as is", they take more space than MP3 but still much less than WAV files that save CD quality too. One-click CD to MP3 Converter allows you to convert CD to FLAC and CD to APE, so use this feature if you really need the CD quality of your music!

Download One-click CD to MP3 Converter free trial

Get unlimited version now!

More about audio formats

Using CD to MP3 conversion you create MP3 music files. MP3 is the most popular "compressed" audio format. It allows to encode CD to compressed MP3 files, that occupy less of disk space. The balance between quality of sound and file size may vary. MP3 files may sound very similar to original CD if they set to a maximum quality. However MP3 files cannot keep 1:1 CD quality. Anyway converting CD to MP3 format is recommended in most cases because of its popularity.

Converting CD: select format

CD to FLAC conversion is a good alternative of 'CD to MP3' for those who want to preserve original CD quality. Yes, FLAC files seems much bigger than MP3s, but they still much smaller than 1:1 WAV files! Moreover FLAC are supported by modern hardware MP3 players and other devices like Hi-Fi home stereos. See also how to convert FLAC to MP3.

If you don't like MP3 format for some reason or if you want to load as much music as possible to your MP3 player use CD to WMA conversion instead of CD to MP3. WMA files can be smaller than MP3, so you get more space on your memory card and thus it can fit more music! But you pay for these extra music getting a bit lower quality.

Convert CD to WAV files if you want to get 1:1 copy of your CD. Note that WAV files are really huge, an average song may take up to 30-40Mb of hard drive space. If you don't need CD quality use CD to MP3 conversion. If you really need it - use FLAC or APE formats instead.

CD to OGG conversion instead of CD to MP3. OGG vorbis format can ensure the quality that is much close to the original CD than MP3. It's compact, provides very good quality and it's a good MP3 replacement for storing music on a computer. Almost all software audio players supports this format.

Use APE format instead of MP3 or FLAC in a case you need to save original quality. This lossless format allows to get compressed files without quality loss. In fact your files will save original CD quality and will occupy less of disk space than WAV files. However their size will be bigger than files of MP3, WMA and OGG formats. It has a bit better compression rate and encoding speed than FLAC format.

Learn more about CD to MP3 conversion:

Rip audio CD website
Learn more about CD ripping
CD ripper's site
Convert music to MP3 format
Audio Converter's site
FLAC to MP3 converter
OGG to MP3 converter

New releases:

July 3, 2009
One-click CD to MP3 Converter updated to version 1.13 featuring MP3 and Ogg Vorbis encoding improvements and upgrades. Download it now