When comparing ABCDE vs Whipper, the Slant community recommends ABCDE for most people. In the question“What are the best CD rippers for UNIX-like systems?” ABCDE is ranked 4th while Whipper is ranked 13th. The most important reason people chose ABCDE is:
Very easy to use.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Command-line tool with prompts
Very easy to use.
Pro easy customization via text configuration file
Pro Allows submitting of new CDDB data, even if data exists for matching CDs
Pro Audio files post-processing option.
Pro Actively developped
It might be the only secure ripper for GNU/Linux that's in active development besides Rubyripper as of 2019.
Pro Most features
(of any secure ripper on Linux so far (2019))
Cons
Con No GUI
If you need a Graphical interface then this isn't the tool you are looking for.
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.
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.