Rip/Burn makes it easy to create backup copies of your important data CDs and DVDs. It can also burn ISO images to CD or DVD using your DVD burner - ideal for burning Linux distros to disc.

Rip/Burn is free and simple to use. To make a copy of a disc, click the browse to set the hard drive location for your disc, choose the the optical disc drive you wish to copy from and click the Rip button.

To then burn a copy of that disc, choose your CD or DVD burner, load in a blank disc of appropriate capacity and click the Burn button.

The software is designed to work in both single and dual drive modes. In dual drive mode, you select your ripping drive and your burning drive, load appropriate discs into each, press the copy disc button and Rip/Burn does the rest automatically. As soon as it finished ripping your disc, it burns the copy straight away.

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Application: Rip/Burn (Build 1) - Windows Edition
Download file: RipBurn-Build1-i386-win32.exe (September 24, 2008)
File Size: 2.6MB
System requirements: Windows 2000/XP/Vista

Warranty

Simple. There isn’t one. It should work but this software is supplied “as is” with no warranty whatsoever. Use at your own risk.

CDRTools & CYGWIN source code

Rip/Burn relies on the Linux command-line tools, cdrecord and readcd, which are part of the cdrtools collection. These tools in turn rely on the CYGWIN library. To comply with the General Public License (GPL), we are required to make the source code for these tools available to you. We have not changed the source code in any way (in fact, we’ve used generic builds of these tools) and you DO NOT NEED this source code to make Rip/Burn work, we just make it available to comply with the GPL.

CDRtools source code (2MB)

Cygwin1 source code (12.2MB)

NOTE: The Rip/Burn user interface is not released under GPL for the time being.

It seems to be a little known fact about Australian copyright law that consumers are legally entitled to make a backup copy of their paid-for software discs. This tool came about because I wanted to make backups of my operating system discs and I couldn’t find anything to do the job quickly and easily.

Rip/Burn is essentially a front-end user interface for the Linux command-line tools READCD and CDRECORD.

It uses READCD to turn non-copy-protected CDs and DVDs into ISO images and uses CDRECORD to turn those images back into operational discs.

At the moment, the software only works on Windows PCs (Windows 2000, XP, Vista) but I’m working on a Linux version as well.