ACDR reads standard audio compact discs. Most CD-ROM & DVD hardware can be used. For widest compatability it supports all three interfacesinused for this purpose: SPTI, ASPI32 and 'Raw-Read'.

The list below indicates which file formats that ACDR can write the ripped CD tracks to:

Ext.	Format description
3G2	3GPP 'project 2' file format. *
3GP	3GPP file format. *
AAC	MPEG-2/4 Advanced Audio Coding format (ADTS container format). *
AIF	Audio Interchange File Format.
AIFF	Audio Interchange File Format.
ALAW	G.711 A-law european telephony format.
ALW	G.711 A-law european telephony format.
APE	Monkey Audio lossless compression.
AU	Sun/NeXT/DEC audio files.
CDR	Audio CD compatible raw data.
F32	Floating point raw 32-bit IEEE data.
F64	Floating point raw 64-bit IEEE data.
FLAC	Free lossless audio codec files. *
IFF	Interchange file format.
M4A	iTunes MPEG-4 audio format. *
MAT	Matlab variables binary files.
MOV	Apple QuickTime movie format. *
MP2	MPEG audio streams, layer II. *
MP3	MPEG audio streams, layer III. *
MP4	MPEG-4 base media file format. *
MPC	Musepack audio compression.
OGG	Vorbis Ogg streams. *
RA	RealAudio files. *
SB	Signed byte (8-bit) data.
SDW	Signed dword (32-bit) data.
SHN	Shorten lossless compression.
SW	Signed word (16-bit) data.
TXT	Ascii text formatted audio data.
UB	Unsigned byte (8-bit) data.
UDW	Unsigned dword (32-bit) data.
ULAW	G.711 mu-law US telephony format.
ULW	G.711 mu-law US telephony format.
UW	Unsigned word (16-bit) data.
VOC	Creative Labs 'newer style' sound files.
VOC	Creative Labs 'older style' sound files.
VOX	Dialogic 4-bit ADPCM files.
WAV	Microsoft wave format.
WAV	Broadcast wave format (EBU BWF). *
WMA	Windows Media Audio 4. *
WMA	Windows Media Audio 9 CBR. *
WMA	Windows Media Audio 9 ABR. *
WMA	Windows Media Audio 9 VBR. *
WMA	Windows Media Audio 9 Voice. *
WMA	Windows Media Audio 9 Lossless. *
WV	WavPack lossless compression. *

* Certain compression formats requires the use of free 3rd party Add-ons.