I tried fre:ac but got an error from cddb when trying to connect to the database. Looking to rip to both FLAC and to Opus. Ideally with the latest codec updates.
Any recommendations?
fre:ac
A free audio converter and CD ripper with support for various popular formats and encoders. It converts freely between MP3, M4A/AAC, FLAC, WMA, Opus, Ogg Vorbis, Speex, Monkey’s Audio (APE), WavPack, WAV and other formats.
With fre:ac you easily rip your audio CDs to MP3 or M4A files for use with your hardware player or convert files that do not play with other audio software. You can even convert whole music libraries retaining the folder and filename structure.
The integrated CD ripper supports the CDDB/GNUdb online CD database. It will automatically query song information and write it to ID3v2 or other title information tags.
Super Upvote. fre:ac makes it so easy.
abcdeabcde uses whatever current codecs you have installed, it doesn’t do any of its own encoding
I usually use grip, but I think that’s not maintained anymore.
Dragging and dropping in KDE usually works as well. It has a built-in ripper, presenting an audio cd as wav, ogg, mp3 or flac files.
Honestly. I used EAC in wine. There are a couple error dialogs that pop up on startup but if I click ok everything works. As for the cddb error I think a common service shutdown. Try using
http://gnudb.gnudb.org:80/~cddb/cddb.cgiReally? Like the drive shows up and everything? Didn’t think this worked in wine.
Cdparanoia to make sure I get a good rip. Then flacenc to convert to flac. Then Picard to tag and organize it.
Wow, I’m bookmarking this comment, good info 👍.
cdparanoia has been excellent for more than two decades.
I use grip, generally.
K3b.
Way back when, I think I was using WinAmp (on XP) and then k3b (when I moved to Linux) to rip and burn cds, but I don’t recall hearing anything about k3b in a couple of years. As for something more recent, I’m afraid I’ve been running Windows lately so I don’t know what available in Linux land.
If you’ve got wine installed you might give Exact Audio Copy a try. It’s what I’ve been using since I started ripping cds again. I don’t know if it work in wine however. I didn’t have any luck ripping cds with WinAmp when I tried recently, though surprisingly, it does still run in Windows 11.
Asunder CD Ripper is pretty much the only one I’ve ever used and it’s great.
Or abcde for command line.
Most of the software people are suggesting here is ancient. A lot of it does not support accurip checks or drive offset correction, which I consider to be essential features. Don’t use abcde, I made that mistake a few years ago
cyanrip is definitely the way to go, there really is no alternative that has the same feature set. Other than EAC in wine if you require scorable 100% log files.
Lots of solid recommendations. If you additionally want to image the cd, you can use dd.
I didn’t find one that consistently worked. I ended up installing a windows VM and using Audio Grabber. It’s ancient, but it works every time for me. Now that I’m thinking about it, I’m wondering if it will work through Wine. I need to try that, but I’ll probably try some of the native Linux recommendations on here first.
cdparanoia is old but has always worked fine, even on crappy drives and damaged disks. Even many modern tools like cyanrip just use cdparanoia to do the actual ripping, just wrapping it in a new UI. You will need to convert the output with another tool, but this is quite easy. (For mp3 disks, just mount them and copy the files, no special tools needed)
Just ripped a friend’s entire collection using cyanrip. Might be more powerful tools out there but I wanted something from the CLI.
