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Add to SafariWhen comparing Sound Juicer vs Rubyripper, the Slant community recommends Sound Juicer for most people. In the question“What are the best CD rippers for UNIX-like systems?” Sound Juicer is ranked 6th while Rubyripper is ranked 10th.
Specs
Question Ranking
Pros
Pro Uses MusicBrainz
Pro Nice user interface
Pro Default FLAC support
Sound Juicer supports ripping to FLAC out of the box with no need for other files.
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.)
Cons
Con Limited preference settings
No option to choose mp3 bitrate.
Con Can't extract to wav format
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.
Con Look-up and mounting fails on some distros
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.)
