What linux program do you use to rip CDs (just audio)

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.

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Cdparanoia to make sure I get a good rip. Then flacenc to convert to flac. Then Picard to tag and organize it.

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.

https://github.com/whipper-team/whipper

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.

K3b.

I have used Asunder before, no complaints

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 use grip, generally.

fre:ac

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.

https://www.freac.org/

Asunder CD Ripper is pretty much the only one I've ever used and it's great.

I just use abcde to flac, and if I want any further conversion I use ffmpeg from flac.

Strawberry

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.

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.

Lots of solid recommendations. If you additionally want to image the cd, you can use dd.

what the fuck is a cd