Open Source Linux CD Ripping Software

fre:ac is a free audio converter and CD ripper for various formats and encoders. It features MP3, MP4/M4A, WMA, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, AAC, and Bonk format support, integrates freedb/CDDB, CDText and ID3v2 tagging and is available in several languages.

K3b is a highly usable and very userfriendly cd writing program.

Grip is a GTK-based CD-player and CD-ripper / MP3 encoder. It has the ripping capabilities of cdparanoia built in, but can also use external rippers (such as cdda2wav). Encoder presets are provided for oggenc, bladeenc, lame, l3enc, xingmp3enc, mp3encode, gogo, flac, faac and opusenc. The main developers can be found in #grip on Libera (irc.libera.chat).

aTunes is a powerful, full-featured, cross-platform player and manager, with support for online radios, podcasts and CD ripping.

RipperX is a GTK program to rip CD audio tracks and encode them to the Ogg, MP3, or FLAC formats. It's goal is to be easy to use, requiring only a few mouse clicks to convert an entire album. It supports CDDB lookups for album and track information.

Python Audio Tools are a collection of audio handling programs. These include programs for CD extraction, track conversion from one audio format to another, track renaming and retagging, track identification, CD burning from tracks, and more.

Qt based application for GNU/Linux to print lightScribe discs. Labels are stored in easy to understand/edit XML format. You can print CDDB data on labels (see HOWTO in documentation section).

Videoder is a tool that allows you to search for any video you want using a personalized search engine that combs through different streaming video services like YouTube, Vimeo, and others, so that you can then download them directly to your Android device.

X-CD-Roast is a flexible frontend for optical disc authoring. It combines command line tools like "cdrecord", "cdda2wav", "readcd" and "mkisofs" into a nice GTK based graphical user interface.

GnomeBaker is a CD/DVD burning application for the Gnome desktop. I am considering closing the project, please mail me at mario.danic AT gmail.com if you have any concerns about that.

flactag is a tagger for whole-album FLAC file with embedded CUE sheets, that retrieves data from the MusicBrainz service.

RhythmBox is an MP3/OGG player for Linux and the GNOME desktop. It features easy playlist edition, CD-ripping, MP3 walkman support, Audio CD burning and internet radio playback. Its interface is strongly based on Apple's iTunes.

gnormalize is a front end to normalize, ripper, encoder and audio converter. It decodes the files to wave, then normalizes the wave and re-encodes it. gnormalize can also convert audio format between MP3, MPC, OGG, APE and FLAC and change tag properties.

DCue is a command line tool for automatically generating audio cue sheets (.cue files) using the massive release database from Discogs.com to find artist names, track titles, durations and other information via the Discogs API. DCue is equally compatible with Windows and Linux (and probably OS X -- though not officially supported). It has no external dependencies whatsoever. It makes use of some C++11 features where available. Full documentation and information about support and contributing is available through the Wiki. Support requests should be directed to the discussion page.

cdstatus is a CD Drive and CDROM analyzer and ripper. It can display lots of disc info. It can rip music cd's to your hard drive as mp3, mp2, ogg, or wav all without intermediate files, right from the command line, with full CDDB and ID3 tag support

WavSplit splits large WAV files at given time positions. To find out split positions you can use any WAV player or editor with a time display.

XMedia is an XML framework to manage a large collection of media files like CDR, Images, Video, MP3, etc. XMedia does for media what DocBook does for documentation. See http://xmedia.sourceforge.net/

A suite of tools for handling CD+G karaoke disks and files. Rips CD+G disks to MP3+G files, and burns CD+G disks from MP3+G and OGG+G files.

Audex is an audio grabber tool for CD-ROM drives built with KDE Frameworks.

A Ripper and encoder frontend for Linux. Requires sndlibfile and lame.so to work.

A frontend with dialog box that draws (using ncurses) windows onto the screen and can burn data cds, music cds, supports burning DVD-images and data DVDs, support of ripping/encoding of all popular formats

Sonic-Rainbow is a Linux GUI DVD/VCD/Video File Player, CD Player, CD Ripper, MP3 Player, Ogg file player, Playlist Editor with HTTP CD/Album Lookup in one simple Linux KDE/Gnome/Xfce etc. application. Written by Gary Baker ( South Oz )

The dynamic duo of CDDB.py and DiscID.py, along with their side-kick C module cdrommodule.so, provide an easy way for Python programs to fetch information on audio CDs from CDDB (http://www.cddb.com/) -- a very large online database of track listings a

The Audirella is a piece of ripping CDs and converting audio formats in the form of wizard. Use great tools such as: cdparanoia, cdda2wav, bladenc, lame, oggenc, oggdec, etc.. It is written in shell-script and uses Xdialog to generate the windows.

autorip is a non-interactive, non-intrusive mp3 rip-and-encode front end. Simply drop your CD into your CD-ROM drive, wait for your CD to eject, wash, rinse, and repeat.