cyanrip is a fully featured CD ripping program able to take out most of the tedium.
Fully accurate, it offers advanced features most rippers don’t, yet has no bloat and is cross-platform.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Automatic tag lookup from the MusicBrainz database.
- Encoded and muxed via FFmpeg (currently supports flac, opus, mp3, tta, wavpack, alac, vorbis and aac).
- Drive offset compensation and error recovery via cd-paranoia.
- Full pregap handling.
- HDCD detection and decoding.
- CD Deemphasis (TOC + subcode).
- Multi-disc album ripping.
- Encode to multiple formats in parallel.
- Cover image embedding in mp3, flac, aac and opus.
- Automatic cover art image downloading.
- Provides and automatically verifies EAC CRC32, AccurateRip V1 and V2 checksums.
- Accurate ripping verification of partially damaged tracks.
- Automatic drive offset finding.
Website: github.com/cyanreg/cyanrip
Support:
Developer: Lynne
License: GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1
cyanrip is written in C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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