Sound Juicer is a lean CD ripper using GTK+ and GStreamer. It extracts audio from CDs and converts it into audio files. Sound Juicer can also play audio tracks directly from the CD, offering a preview before ripping.
It supports any audio codec supported by a GStreamer plugin, including MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, and uncompressed PCM formats.
It is an established part of the GNOME desktop environment.
Key Features
- Automatic track tagging via CDDB.
- Encoding to ogg / vorbis, FLAC and raw WAV.
- Easy to configure encoding path.
- Multiple genres.
- Internationalization support.
Website: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/sound-juicer
Support:
Developer: Ross Burton
License: GNU General Public License

Sound Juicer is written in C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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