Ripping A CD As One Track

This page will discuss ripping a CD as one large track. Other applications such as EAC have the option to rip a CD as one track as standard. Audiograbber doesn't but it is easy to do following the steps below.

• Insert the CD and once displayed right click the last track and select track properties
• Towards the bottom of the track properties dialog box there is a section called sectors. Copy the number shown in Last and press OK.
• Right click the first track and select track properties.
• In Sectors paste the number copied previously in Last. Press OK.
• De-select all tracks with the exception of track one and rip as normal.
• You now have one mp3 (or other format of choice) of the album.
• It is advisable to deselect the id3v tags options (under the settings menu) before ripping the track.

Note that you cannot jump from one "track" to another in the resulting file. This is normally done by the use of a cue sheet but Audiograbber cannot create these. However there is a solution if you use mp3.

There is a small application called Cuemaster which is freeware. You can use this to create your own cue sheets (based on the track times which you can get from Audiograbber) or you can download them from freedb. Once you have the track names you use the export function to embed these to the mp3 file. You need to save them as a cue sheet in the same directory as the mp3 as well.

When you now open the cue sheet in your player you see that there is a full track list with artist, title and times just as if there were individual mp3s.

To come: Screen shots to accompany this guide.