When comparing Sound Juicer vs Whipper, 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 Whipper is ranked 13th.
Specs
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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 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 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 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.