If you’re okay using WINE, EAC is the best CD audio ripping software. Here’s a decent setup guide: https://eacguide.github.io/
Don’t use cddb, use the optional CUETools DB plugin that can be installed during the EAC installation.
Also use EAC on Linux with wine.
This is the correct answer.
abcde
abcde uses whatever current codecs you have installed, it doesn’t do any of its own encoding
Red Book hasn't been updated since 1980, I think you'll be okay.
I've never had a problem with
abcde -o flac
I personally encountered no issues at all with it, for me this just feels like "finished" software
I used that (and decoded the acronym as I read it — a better cd encoder)
Cdparanoia to make sure I get a good rip. Then flacenc to convert to flac. Then Picard to tag and organize it.
cdparanoia has been excellent for more than two decades.
Wow, I'm bookmarking this comment, good info 👍.
https://flathub.org/apps/org.gnome.SoundJuicer
I then run the album through Picard to make sure all the tagging is correct.
I usually use grip, but I think that's not maintained anymore.
Dragging and dropping in KDE usually works as well. It has a built-in ripper, presenting an audio cd as wav, ogg, mp3 or flac files.
Just ripped a friend's entire collection using cyanrip. Might be more powerful tools out there but I wanted something from the CLI.
I'm using the Whipper docker container mostly successfully.
Is there any additional documentation or forum beyond the github readme
Edit: Is there a cheat-sheet of whipper commands?
-h for help should list commands, and it's nested so you can get help for each subcommand. You'll want to read the Getting Started section.
K3b.
cdparanoia is old but has always worked fine, even on crappy drives and damaged disks. Even many modern tools like cyanrip just use cdparanoia to do the actual ripping, just wrapping it in a new UI. You will need to convert the output with another tool, but this is quite easy. (For mp3 disks, just mount them and copy the files, no special tools needed)
I use grip, generally.
Most of the software people are suggesting here is ancient. A lot of it does not support accurip checks or drive offset correction, which I consider to be essential features. Don't use abcde, I made that mistake a few years ago
cyanrip is definitely the way to go, there really is no alternative that has the same feature set. Other than EAC in wine if you require scorable 100% log files.
I have used Asunder before, no complaints
A free audio converter and CD ripper with support for various popular formats and encoders. It converts freely between MP3, M4A/AAC, FLAC, WMA, Opus, Ogg Vorbis, Speex, Monkey's Audio (APE), WavPack, WAV and other formats.
With fre:ac you easily rip your audio CDs to MP3 or M4A files for use with your hardware player or convert files that do not play with other audio software. You can even convert whole music libraries retaining the folder and filename structure.
The integrated CD ripper supports the CDDB/GNUdb online CD database. It will automatically query song information and write it to ID3v2 or other title information tags.
Super Upvote. fre:ac makes it so easy.
I actually forgot the name, so long ago that I ripped audio cds but now that I read it, I have an acute attack of nostalgia. Awesome program! Thanks for the nostalgia btw.
Asunder CD Ripper is pretty much the only one I've ever used and it's great.
Or abcde for command line.
Way back when, I think I was using WinAmp (on XP) and then k3b (when I moved to Linux) to rip and burn cds, but I don’t recall hearing anything about k3b in a couple of years. As for something more recent, I’m afraid I’ve been running Windows lately so I don’t know what available in Linux land.
If you’ve got wine installed you might give Exact Audio Copy a try. It’s what I’ve been using since I started ripping cds again. I don’t know if it work in wine however. I didn’t have any luck ripping cds with WinAmp when I tried recently, though surprisingly, it does still run in Windows 11.
I just use abcde to flac, and if I want any further conversion I use ffmpeg from flac.
Lots of solid recommendations. If you additionally want to image the cd, you can use dd.
I didn't find one that consistently worked. I ended up installing a windows VM and using Audio Grabber. It's ancient, but it works every time for me. Now that I'm thinking about it, I'm wondering if it will work through Wine. I need to try that, but I'll probably try some of the native Linux recommendations on here first.
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