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Add to SafariWhen comparing Asunder vs Whipper, the Slant community recommends Asunder for most people. In the question“What are the best CD rippers for UNIX-like systems?” Asunder is ranked 2nd while Whipper is ranked 13th. The most important reason people chose Asunder is:
Can be found in the official repositories for most distributions.
Specs
Question Ranking
Pros
Pro Easy to install
Can be found in the official repositories for most distributions.
Pro Allows specifying encoder options
Pro Lightweight
Small memory footprint.
Pro Very stable
Works great for creating a lossless audiophile collection of owned CDs.
Pro Allows ripping in multiple formats at once
Pro Very easy to use
Supports Gnudb (including the proxy setting). Supports many output formats, with a simple interface.
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 Does not support MusicBrainz for tagging
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..
Con Lacks a path example to see as you select (like easytag)
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.
