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When comparing ripperX vs ABCDE, 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 ABCDE is ranked 4th.
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Pros
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.
Pro Command-line tool with prompts
Very easy to use.
Pro easy customization via text configuration file
Pro Allows submitting of new CDDB data, even if data exists for matching CDs
Pro Audio files post-processing option.
Cons
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.
Con No unicode support
Con It does not encode CD
Con No GUI
If you need a Graphical interface then this isn't the tool you are looking for.