Unlike iTunes or Windows Media player, however, it didn't show me which song was being ripped, just a big green progress bar. My 14 track CD of 60 minutes (Buena Vista Social Club) took just 2 minutes and 2 seconds to rip to 192kbps MP3s. I could also change the bitrate from 8kbps to 320kbps. When ripping a CD to PC files, Burning Studio first correctly added the album name and track titles, and then offered a choice of ripping to MP3, WAV, or WMA files. It then took just under four minutes to burn on my 3.4GHz quad-core test machine with 4GB RAM, writing to 16x DVD-R media. I'd have preferred an option to leave the bitrate at the source's setting.
The program went through a 10 minute conversion process, presumably to change the bitrate, even though the files were already in MP3 format (other audio formats aren't accepted). My project was 371MB, consisting of 111 files. The program boasts a thermometer control at the bottom which indicates how much of the disc the files will take up, a helpful touch. I'd hoped to be able to just add a top-level folder containing nested folders with MP3s, but I had to go in and add the actual music files into the folders I'd added. In testing Ashampoo's audio disc capabilities, I first tried creating an MP3 DVD with Burning Studio. Full disc copying, working with disc images, erasing discs, printing labels, and advanced settings like making a disc bootable round out the program's options. Movie burning options come next, with movie and slideshow authoring, using a prepared movie folder, or simply copying video files to a disc. Next up are the music facilities: you can create an audio CD that will play on any CD player, an MP3 disc, copy music files as data for PC playback, or rip a CD's music tracks to your PC. The second is for backup, letting you span multiple discs with a set of data files. The first lets you create or update a simple data disc, with an optional auto-start feature. The first two option sets concern writing data to disc. Burning Studio's nine main menus offer a wealth of options for burning both data and media content to all types of optical media, including CD, DVD, and Blu-ray.
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