Questions about CD ripping

Since Microsoft ended support for CDDB or whatever service downloads the metadata for CDs, I can’t use the Media Player to rip CDs anymore. Too bad because it was simple and effective.

Rather than look for alternatives, I’m using Wavelab Pro 12, but it is a bit of a pain. For starters, if you don’t manually change the file name to track number and song name, it will create the files with just the song name, so they will be in the wrong order. Is there no way to have it name the file with the track number by default?

Also, it doesn’t create the folder with the artist, then a subfolder with the album name, and puts the files in it, it just puts the files at the folder you specify. So I have to manually create those folders, then move the files, delete the extra file types that Wavelab creates.

And the last problem is that it rips all the files but also opens them in Wavelab, and when it’s done ripping the last track, it starts playing it, which gets really confusing when I’m listening to music on my receiver and the last song in the CD starts playing from the studio monitors.

Is there a way to make it work more like a usual CD ripper? I know Wavelab is not a music player, but with this stupid fad of killing optical formats, the options narrow. Besides, I like the error correction capabilities in Wavelab.

Are you PC or OSX?

Windows 11 mostly.

Exact Audio Copy https://www.exactaudiocopy.de/

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Thanks, I knew about it and most of the other programs available, but my point was, can Wavelab Pro 12 do the things I mentioned? Specifically:

  1. By default, name the ripped files with the track number as the first two characters, space and song name

  2. Create the folders for artist, a subfolder for album name, and rip the tracks to that subfolder

  3. Not create the other two file types, which are just to work inside Wavelab

  4. Not starting to play the last song as soon as it finishes ripping the full CD

And you can untick the boxes in Import window to not load them into WL and not play anything on completion.

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I mean to have that behavior by default, not having to remember to pull down that list every time.

I guess I totally missed that. Thanks!