Free Audio Recorder allows you to capture audio from a variety of sources: CD players, line input, microphones, Internet radio, cassettes and anything you hear on the computer. All captured audio can be saved to MP3 and OGG files; MP3 encoding uses the LAME encoder.
Free Audio Recorder is freeware for personal use and consumes very little CPU, below 1% on modern computers.
The main benefit of using Free Audio Recorder is its ability to capture CD-quality audio from various sources and save it directly to MP3 or OGG files.