The application supports the following formats: MP3 (MP1, MP2, MP3), MPEG-4/AAC (M4A), OGG Vorbis (OGG), WAV, Monkey's Audio (APE), and FLAC formats.

Supports buffer underrun prevention technologies. The program offers multithreaded buffered CD-ripping and encoding, copies "Copy-Protected" CD's, Error Recovery, reads audio from badly scratched CD's, download and upload disc information from/to the freedb, the Internet Compact Disc Database.

The Free CD-DA Extractor features Volume Normalizer and Compressor, Fade In/Out, Silence deletion from the start and end of a song, and reads and writes CD-Text.