Converting your CD collection to MP3 formats enables you to access all of your favourite music on your computer and there are a number of tools that can be used to make the conversion. One such program is Easy CD-DA Extractor but it has a number of tricks up its sleeve that make it stand head and shoulders above the competition.

As well as MP3, the program also supports AAC, WMA Ogg Vorbis, FLAC and a number of other formats. In addition to converting CDs to any of these formats, existing files can also be converted from one format to another.

Track information can be automatically downloaded from a variety of online music databases, and album art can be retrieved from Amazon to complete your cataloguing. During the ripping process, tracks can be normalised to help balance out differing volume levels and fade in and outs can be added or removed.

Easy CD-DA Extractor includes the option to edit the metadata attached to audio files so you can adjust album information if necessary. Disc burning is also built into the program so it is possible to burn not only audio CDs, but also MP3 CDs and DVDs as well as data CDs and DVDs. This truly is the Swiss Army knife of audio conversion.