Asunder is a graphical Audio CD ripper and encoder for Linux.
You can use it to save tracks from an Audio CD as any of WAV, MP3, OGG, FLAC, Opus, WavPack, Musepack, AAC, and Monkey’s Audio files.
The software is released under an open source license.
Key Features
- Can save audio tracks as WAV, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, Opus, Wavpack, Musepack, AAC, and Monkey’s audio files.
- Uses CDDB to name and tag each track.
- Creates M3U playlists.
- Can encode to multiple formats in one session.
- Simultaneous rip and encode.
- Allows for each track to be by a different artist.
- Select/deselect all tracks by clicking on rip checkbox header.
- Does not require a specific desktop environment.
- Artist and title columns are resizable.
- Support for XDG_CACHE_HOME – defines the base directory relative to which user specific non-essential data files should be stored.
- NetBSD and FreeBSD support.
- Internationalization support – there are completed translations for Albanian, Arabic, Basque, Bulgarian, Begali, Bosnian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hungarian, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian Bokmal, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian, Slovak, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, and Urdu. There are partial translations for other languages.
Website: littlesvr.ca/asunder
Support:
Developer: Andrew Smith and contributors
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
Asunder is written in Python. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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