CD ripper

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A CD ripper, CD grabber, or CD extractor is software that rips raw digital audio in Compact Disc Digital Audio (CD-DA) format tracks on a compact disc to standard computer sound files, such as WAV or MP3.

A more formal term used for the process of ripping audio CDs is digital audio extraction (DAE).