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Add to SafariWhen comparing Sound Juicer vs Asunder, 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 Sound Juicer is ranked 6th. The most important reason people chose Asunder is:
Can be found in the official repositories for most distributions.
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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 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.
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 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)
