It is a CD ripping software and can handle many kinds of audio projects.

Hanso CD Extractor is an application for managing a range of audio-related projects. Over time you are very likely to have accumulated a collection of audio CDs that you would like to convert to one of those digital compressed formats, so that you can store these easily and play them on any player devices. The core functions are, of course, ripping and format conversion. Transcoding, from one format to another, is also possible. When doing such conversion one gets into a problem of recording levels, you normally do not get similar audio output on tracks from different CDS. This application is able to normalize that to a desired level. It will fill in tag details using the INI file of the audio CD or by accessing the on-line database the CDDB. Thus you do not need to spend time entering these metadata items to your tracks.

File formats supported by the tool are MP3, WAV, OGG and VOF. It will let you create playlists in PLS and M3U formats. For the encoding of the MP3 tracks the tool uses the LAME encoder, the most well known encoder available today. The app has a jitter correction feature that lets one maintain quality levels well. It can record analog through the line-in input of your audio card, and there is a built in player too to make sure the track conversions have been done properly. All these are done through a simple interface that should not take much time to learn, once you know your way around with digital music.