What are the best CD rippers for UNIX-like systems?

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What are the best CD rippers for UNIX-like systems?

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Best CD rippers for UNIX-like systems	Price	Platforms	License
82 ripperX	-	-	-
63 Asunder	FREE	-	-
53 K3b	Free	-	-
-- ABCDE	-	-	-
-- Brasero	FREE	GNU/Linux	-

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score 480 · Answer 1

ripperX

Top Pro

FLAC encoding

Top Con

No choice of file type

This is only for Ubuntu. See More

AmiablePramzimas's Experience

Unicode characters break the workflow. No proper error handling. See More

Top Pro

Simple to configure and execute

Top Con

No alternative to freedb

With freedb going offline, there's no clear way to get cddb info. See More

ColorfulKukulkan's Experience

Does encode CD See More

Top Pro

Encodes CDs

Top Con

No unicode support

NiceAhauChamahez's Experience

Pretty much useless now unless you want to manually fill in info. See More

Top Pro

Configure interface allows easy tuning of output quality

Enables access to some of the more advanced features like scratch repair or FLAC compression level. See More

Top Con

It does not encode CD

ExceptionalVali's Experience

it does not encode CD, it just makes WAV and M3U file See More

Top Pro

Can easily be patched to work with www.gnudb.org (after freedb having gone offline)

Recompile ripperx v2.80 with patch from here. See More

jma cc's Experience

Excelente software.. See More

ClassyAbhean's Experience

Is simple and works very well. See More

OrganizedChronos's Experience

Great - until freedb went away See More

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score 235 · Answer 2

Asunder

Top Pro

Easy to install

Can be found in the official repositories for most distributions. See More

Top Con

Does not support MusicBrainz for tagging

SuccessfulActaeus's Experience

I also tried ripperx, brasero, xfburn. ripperx doesn' t allow using %A in the directory specification and I want each album in it's own directory. I originally ripped all my CDs in 2008 and couldnt remember how I did it (15 years later....). asunder made it super easy to rip a CD that a family gave us as a gift (audio book). See More

Top Pro

Allows specifying encoder options

Top Con

Segmentation error

Ubuntu 18.04 - start from command line: "Segmentation fault (core dumped)". From GUI it does not start at all. Let's google a bit.. See More

JovialKupala's Experience

simple-words well ! See More

Top Pro

Lightweight

Small memory footprint. See More

Top Con

Lacks a path example to see as you select (like easytag)

CulturedHemithea's Experience

Excellent audio CD ripper and audio conversion tool for Linux it's easy to configure. See More

Top Pro

Very stable

Works great for creating a lossless audiophile collection of owned CDs. See More

ColorfulJatasur's Experience

Works fine on manjaro. Installed as a snap package. Many encoding options. See More

Top Pro

Allows ripping in multiple formats at once

ImpartialOmoikane's Experience

Fast and easy to use, reliable scraper for artist and tracks. If you want mp3 encoding need to install lame: sudo apt-get install lame. Sometimes freezes most of the way through. See More

Top Pro

Very easy to use

Supports Gnudb (including the proxy setting). Supports many output formats, with a simple interface. See More

ReveredRaetTawy's Experience

Much faster than sound-juicer See More

GloriousIzanami's Experience

Constructive Endeavor See More

ClassyEris's Experience

Worked right away from the distro install. Good quality with standard parameters. See More

KindCheonjiwang's Experience

Allows ripping to a user defined path using any discovered parameters. See More

WorthyIkaRoa's Experience

Simple to use and reliable. See More

EnchantingHayasum's Experience

It just works See More

ExceptionalVali's Experience

It does not work at all. See More

HappyFengMeng's Experience

Ease of use, clean interface. See More

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score 89 · Answer 3

K3b

Top Pro

Creating data CDs

Top Con

Cannot set default filenames for ripped audio files

The target filenames for ripped audio must be set each time you rip, which can get tedious when you're ripping a music library. See More

Roy Harding's Experience

K3b provides a lot of facilities, perhaps too many in one package. Does its jobs well and reliably. See More

Top Pro

DVD copy support

Top Con

When ripping audio CDs, setting MP3 encode parameters is broken

The settings for MP3 encoding are broken - it doesn't matter what quality you set them to, resulting file is always 128k. See More

DecentHarpocrates's Experience

Only one that gets title artist and album data without much trouble. See More

Top Pro

Free from Gnome dependencies

FunHercules's Experience

stuck on 128kb for LAME which is unusable See More

Top Pro

Enhanced CD device handling

NiceAhauChamahez's Experience

Flac compression settings are a mess. After a couple of very frustrating hours the only way I could get these to stick was: Place the compression setting at the END of the string, save settings then EXIT the app completely and come back in. Messy. Great for burning tho. See More

Top Pro

Creating mixed-mode CDs

BrightPotrympus's Experience

I recently bought a bunch of CDs, intending to rip them. Previously I used kaudiocreator, but this isn't available in KDE5. I found K3B to be a poor substitute (in order to get anything better than 128k files, I needed to rip each file to FLAC, then transcode on the command line with LAME.) You also can't set the target filename template, if you don't want the default, you must enter it for each CD you rip. See More

Top Pro

Creating eMovix CDs

HappyFengMeng's Experience

Dependent on KDE. See More

CulturedHemithea's Experience

The best DVD CD burning to available for Linux simply the Best See More

CompassionateFreyja's Experience

Irregularly produces a 'Error' disk image. This has been reported, but no solution found AFAIK. In fact, the copy does seem to work. Confusing. Also: can't find how to Verify manually. See More

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score 56 · Answer 4

ABCDE

Top Pro

Command-line tool with prompts

Very easy to use. See More

Top Con

No GUI

If you need a Graphical interface then this isn't the tool you are looking for. See More

SplendidNabia's Experience

Tried Sound Juicer, K3b and Asunder. They either didn't work at all or would not let me supply new CDDB data. See More

Top Pro

easy customization via text configuration file

LivelyFreyja's Experience

Tried several but settled with ABCDE. It took a little bit of fiddling, but I got it set up so I could just pop my CD in and it would automatically rip it just the way I wanted it. https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=220400 See More

Top Pro

Allows submitting of new CDDB data, even if data exists for matching CDs

UpbeatWepwawet's Experience

Do you rip CD's often? If yes, than this is the tool. Includes post processing of audio files (i.e. adding replay gain). Easy to configure and can work unattended. See More

Top Pro

Audio files post-processing option.

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score 21 · Answer 5

Brasero

Top Pro

Made for Linux

It's designed only for Linux, so it's not just an afterthought by the developers. See More

RageGamer's Experience

It's a decent and simple way to burn discs. See More

Specs

Platforms:GNU/Linux

Top Pro

Easy to use

The interface of the app is straightforward, meaning it is easy to understand and use for any type of user. See More

Top Pro

Copy a CD/DVD to the hard drive

Top Pro

Checking disc file integrity

Top Pro

Burning data, audio, and video CDs/DVDs on the fly

Top Pro

Editing of discs contents

(remove/move/rename files inside directories) See More

Top Pro

Supports multiple backends

cdrtools, growisofs and libburn See More

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score 62 · Answer 6

Sound Juicer

Top Pro

Uses MusicBrainz

Top Con

Limited preference settings

No option to choose mp3 bitrate. See More

LikableCopacati's Experience

Asunder kept failing on the first song of the CD I was ripping. Not only did sound juicer set up the recording, seeing all the songs. Sound Juicer is a much better experience to use. See More

Top Pro

Nice user interface

Top Con

Can't extract to wav format

VivaciousDeimos's Experience

Works well out of the box. See More

Top Pro

Default FLAC support

Sound Juicer supports ripping to FLAC out of the box with no need for other files. See More

Top Con

Can't control bitstream and sampling rate

These are properties of the file, so you get what's there - an exact digital copy of the material on the CD. Changing these means editing the file. The most common sampling rate is 44.1K samples/second with a sample size of 16 bits. Unless you're dealing with studio masters, which are often recorded at a sample rate of 48K samples/second, there's no advantage at all in upping the specs on a file which was recorded on CD at 16/44.1. See More

HappyFengMeng's Experience

Very nice. Used this under Ubuntu, with ElementaryOS. Painless. See More

Top Con

Look-up and mounting fails on some distros

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score 40 · Answer 7

soundKonverter

CulturedHemithea's Experience

This audio converter is very very good. It is a little difficult to configure if you don't have used it before. See More

score 67 · Answer 8

Audex

CulturedHemithea's Experience

This is another very good Linux tool for CD audio ripping it is very easy to configure but sometimes you don't find it in the official repos of your Linux distribution. See More

score 31 · Answer 9

KIO-audiocd

Holo Deck's Experience

One of the best features of KDE are KIO slaves and this one is a prime example. See More

score 25 · Answer 10

Rubyripper

Top Pro

Graphical user interface

Your only option for a secure ripper with a GUI as of 2019. See More

Top Con

Ripping takes at least two times as long as some quick-and-dirty burst-mode ripper

...but for a bit-identical copy of your audio CD you were expecting that, right? See More

CulturedHemithea's Experience

This CD audio ripper is very good it has excellent error correction features but sometimes it is a little hard to configure and when it has the error correction feature enabled it could take a very long time to rip a CD. See More

Specs

License:GNU General Public License (GPL), version 3

Top Pro

Good innovative error detection(/correction) mechanism

(On top of its cdparanoia backend.) See More

Top Con

Usually not present in default software repositories of your favorite Linux distribution

(as of 2019) See More

bugmenot's Experience

tough luck finding ready-to-install software packages, but not too hard to install manually either. See More

Top Con

No support for AccurateRip or similar service

(For verification of rips against results of other people.) See More

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score 11 · Answer 11

Whipper

Top Pro

Actively developped

It might be the only secure ripper for GNU/Linux that's in active development besides Rubyripper as of 2019. See More

Top Con

Might refuse service if it can't access impeccable metadata for your disc

Must use --unknown flag if ripping a CD which doesn't have a matching TOC in the MusicBrainz database. See More

bugmenot's Experience

most features of any secure Linux ripper so far. still has some annoying bugs, though. See More

Specs

License:GNU General Public License (GPL), version 3

Platforms:Linux

Top Pro

Most features

(of any secure ripper on Linux so far (2019)) See More

Top Con

No graphical user interface

As of 2019 there is no GUI available yet, so some users may be repelled or have a steep learning curve. If you can't do without a GUI you may want to give the somewhat more limited Rubyripper a try. See More

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15 Options Considered

My Recommendation for ripperX

My Recommendation for ripperX

FLAC encoding

No choice of file type

Simple to configure and execute

No alternative to freedb

Encodes CDs

No unicode support

Configure interface allows easy tuning of output quality

It does not encode CD

Can easily be patched to work with www.gnudb.org (after freedb having gone offline)

My Recommendation for Asunder

My Recommendation for Asunder

Easy to install

Does not support MusicBrainz for tagging

Allows specifying encoder options

Segmentation error

Lightweight

Lacks a path example to see as you select (like easytag)

Very stable

Allows ripping in multiple formats at once

Very easy to use

My Recommendation for K3b

My Recommendation for K3b

Creating data CDs

Cannot set default filenames for ripped audio files

DVD copy support

When ripping audio CDs, setting MP3 encode parameters is broken

Free from Gnome dependencies

Enhanced CD device handling

Creating mixed-mode CDs

Creating eMovix CDs

My Recommendation for ABCDE

My Recommendation for ABCDE

Command-line tool with prompts

No GUI

easy customization via text configuration file

Allows submitting of new CDDB data, even if data exists for matching CDs

Audio files post-processing option.

My Recommendation for Brasero

My Recommendation for Brasero

Made for Linux

Easy to use

Copy a CD/DVD to the hard drive

Checking disc file integrity

Burning data, audio, and video CDs/DVDs on the fly

Editing of discs contents

Supports multiple backends

My Recommendation for Sound Juicer

My Recommendation for Sound Juicer

Uses MusicBrainz

Limited preference settings

Nice user interface

Can't extract to wav format

Default FLAC support

Can't control bitstream and sampling rate

Look-up and mounting fails on some distros

My Recommendation for soundKonverter

My Recommendation for soundKonverter

My Recommendation for Audex

My Recommendation for Audex

My Recommendation for KIO-audiocd

My Recommendation for KIO-audiocd

My Recommendation for Rubyripper

My Recommendation for Rubyripper

Graphical user interface

Ripping takes at least two times as long as some quick-and-dirty burst-mode ripper

Good innovative error detection(/correction) mechanism

Usually not present in default software repositories of your favorite Linux distribution

No support for AccurateRip or similar service

My Recommendation for Flacon

My Recommendation for Flacon

My Recommendation for Xfburn

My Recommendation for Xfburn

My Recommendation for Whipper

My Recommendation for Whipper

Actively developped

Might refuse service if it can't access impeccable metadata for your disc

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