When comparing Sound Juicer vs ripperX, the Slant community recommends ripperX for most people. In the question“What are the best CD rippers for UNIX-like systems?” ripperX is ranked 1st while Sound Juicer is ranked 6th.
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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 FLAC encoding
Pro Simple to configure and execute
Pro Encodes CDs
Pro Configure interface allows easy tuning of output quality
Enables access to some of the more advanced features like scratch repair or FLAC compression level.
Pro Can easily be patched to work with www.gnudb.org (after freedb having gone offline)
Recompile ripperx v2.80 with patch from here.
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 No choice of file type
This is only for Ubuntu.
Con No alternative to freedb
With freedb going offline, there's no clear way to get cddb info.