morituri is a CD audio grabber that aims for accuracy over speed.
Its features are modeled to compare with Exact Audio Copy which runs only on Windows.
morituri is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Supports MusicBrainz for metadata lookup.
- Supports AccurateRip verification.
- Detects sample read offset and ability to defeat cache of drives.
- Performs test and copy rip.
- Detects and rips Hidden Track One Audio.
- Templates for file and directory naming.
- Supports lossless encoding and lossy encoding or re-encoding of images.
- Tagging using GStreamer, including embedding MusicBrainz id’s.
- Retagging of images.
- Plugins for logging.
Website: github.com/thomasvs/morituri
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Developer: Thomas Vander Stichele
License: GNU General Public License v3.0

morituri is written in Python. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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