“Practical and reliable audio converter”

There are a multitude of audio converters and rippers around but few free programs offer the simplicity and functionality of BonkEnc. As well as being able to rip music from a CD and turn it into an audio file, the program boasts a converter for changing the format of a file between a wide range of file types, including MP, Ogg, AVI and WAV.

BonkEnc queries and stores track information using the online free CDDB database, automatically adding this meta data into the file to make it much easier to search and sort your music collection. The application performs its duties quickly and reliably and although the user interface looks rather old-hat, it hides a huge number of options for ripping and converting music, which makes this one of the most powerful free rippers you'll find.

Languages:

English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish

BonkEnc supports the following formats:

MP3, AAC, MP4, FLAC, AIF, VOC, OggVorbis, AU, WAV

Recent changes in BonkEnc:

Cuesheets are now created correctly when encoding multiple tracks to a single file
Bugs fixed

OS requirements for BonkEnc:

OS: Win98/98SE/Me/2000/NT/XP/Vista

Pros

Converts a wide range of audio formats
Automatic CDDB data transfer
Quick
Lots of ripping and conversion options

Cons

Drab user interface

Laws concerning the use of this piece of software vary from country to country. We do not encourage or condone the use of this program if it is in violation of those laws.

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From the publisher of BonkEnc

BonkEnc is a CD ripper, audio encoder and converter for various formats. It can produce MP3, MP4/M4A, Ogg Vorbis, AAC, Bonk and FLAC files. BonkEnc makes it easy to convert your audio CDs to MP3 or Ogg Vorbis files which you can use in your hardware player or with your favorite audio software. The program supports the CDDB/freedb online CD database and CDText and automatically writes song information to ID3V2 or Vorbis comment tags.