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RipperX 4 – GTK4 audio CD ripper written in Rust

November 2, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

RipperX 4 is a GTK-based audio CD ripper with MusicBrainz lookups, editable metadata, track selection and six output audio formats.

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Rubyripper – secure audio CD ripping and encoding

November 1, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Multimedia

Rubyripper securely extracts audio CDs with repeated reads, error analysis, MusicBrainz tags and support for multiple audio formats.

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GrimRipper – graphical application for ripping audio CDs

April 14, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

GrimRipper extracts audio CDs using a GTK interface, with metadata lookup, multiple encoding formats, M3U playlists and track tagging.

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Laser – simple CD ripper for the GNOME desktop

April 11, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Laser rips audio CDs into several formats with MusicBrainz metadata, album artwork, disc images, cue sheets and mixed-mode disc support.

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Rip Rip Hooray! – specialized audio CD-ripper

February 21, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

Rip Rip Hooray! is a specialized audio CD-ripper optimized for track recovery.

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fre:ac – audio converter and CD ripper

October 17, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

fre:ac converts audio files, rips CDs, edits tags and verifies lossless recordings, with fast multi-threaded processing on Linux.

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Asunder – graphical audio CD ripper and encoder

October 17, 2023 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Asunder rips audio CDs to FLAC, MP3, Opus and other formats, offering metadata lookup, simultaneous encoding and playlist creation.

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grip – CD player and audio CD ripper

October 17, 2023 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

grip combines audio CD playback and ripping with cdparanoia, external encoders, database lookups and configurable extraction options.

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Sound Juicer – audio CD extractor

October 17, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia

Sound Juicer extracts and plays audio CDs using GStreamer, with MusicBrainz metadata lookup, editable tags and custom output filenames.

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Audex – tool for ripping compact discs

October 17, 2023 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Audex rips audio CDs with KDE integration, custom encoder profiles, MusicBrainz metadata, drive offset correction and cue sheet creation.

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Digitize Your Music Collection including Tagging

May 14, 2021 John O'Donnell Multimedia, Software

We go through a simple way to digitize your CD collection using open source software.

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fre:ac – free audio converter and CD ripper

July 12, 2019 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, Software

fre:ac is a free and open source audio converter and CD ripper with support for various popular formats and encoders. It currently converts between a variety of popular formats.

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abcde – CD ripping software for the command line

June 28, 2019 Luke Baker CLI, Multimedia, Reviews, Software

abcde is a Bash script that grabs CDs and compresses it to a wide range of formats. Read Luke’s verdict of this open source script.

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