GrimRipper is a graphical application for ripping audio CDs on Linux.
It reads discs, looks up album and track details from online databases, and converts tracks into a range of audio formats through a GTK3 interfso it can fit neatly into many different Linux setups.
This is a fork of Asunder.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Supports WAV, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, Opus, WavPack, Musepack, AAC, and Monkey’s Audio output formats.
- Can encode to multiple formats in a single session.
- Creates M3U playlists.
- Supports simultaneous ripping and encoding.
- Allows individual tracks to be tagged with different artists.
Website: gitlab.gnome.org/tanuva/GrimRipper
Support:
Developer: The GrimRipper Developers
License: GNU General Public License v2.0

GrimRipper is written in C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
Related Software
| GUI Audio Grabbers | |
|---|---|
| fre:ac | Audio converter and CD ripper supporting popular formats and encoders |
| Asunder | Audio CD ripper and encoder |
| grip | CD player and CD ripper for Gnome |
| Sound Juicer | Lean CD ripper using GTK+ and GStreamer |
| Audex | Easy to use open source audio CD ripping application |
| ripperX | Graphical interface for ripping CD audio tracks and encoding them |
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