When comparing Rubyripper vs Whipper, the Slant community recommends Rubyripper for most people. In the question“What are the best CD rippers for UNIX-like systems?” Rubyripper is ranked 10th while Whipper is ranked 13th. The most important reason people chose Rubyripper is:
Your only option for a secure ripper with a GUI as of 2019.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Graphical user interface
Your only option for a secure ripper with a GUI as of 2019.
Pro Good innovative error detection(/correction) mechanism
(On top of its cdparanoia backend.)
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 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?
Con Usually not present in default software repositories of your favorite Linux distribution
(as of 2019)
Con No support for AccurateRip or similar service
(For verification of rips against results of other people.)
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.