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.

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.

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.

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.

Audio player, transcoder and cd ripper for Mac OS X, Windows, Unix, and Linux. Plays and creates ogg, flac, mp3, aac, m4a, mp4, wav, and aif, and plays wma. 31-band equalizer, repeat loop, variable pitch/tempo, ram or ramdisk preload, more.

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.

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.

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.

cdr is a CD ripper for Linux. It's a simple program with a no-frills console interface. It does one thing well -- the user interface -- and leaves the rest to other components with the same philosophy.

CD tools to read write CDs / DVDs / Images, mostly front ends for cdrtools, written in VB.NET for win32.

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

XiX Player is a free easy to use multi-platform music player that currently runs in Linux, Linux ARM (Raspberry Pi), Windows & MacOS Intel Features: Supports the following file formats: MP3, OGG, M4A (non-DRM), AAC, FLAC, OPUS, APE, DFF, WAV Play & Rip your CD to MP3 or FLAC. CD-Text and CDDB support Rip DVD tracks to MP3 or FLAC. Needs mplayer. See albums the choosen artist is on and vice versa Create and use Playlists Online Radiostations + Presets Record Online Radiostations Schedule Radiostation recordings Listen & Download Podcasts Play License free audio from the Internet Archive Show the lyrics and CD-Covers of the song being played Shuffle and Repeat Reverse Play Crossfading & Trimming Search Rate your songs EQ + FXs (Flanger, Echo & Reverb) Set EQ & TRIM for individual songs Copy, Delete or Rename the file Change ID3 tag (only for MP3/OGG/FLAC/APE) Multi TAGGING/RENAMING Theme support (Basic)

Extremely customizable bash script for ripping audio CDs. It gets album information from FreeDB. You can use any audio extraction software you like, with any encoder, and any related tools (for tagging, replaygain, etc...)

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.

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

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.

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.

BashBurn is a collection of bashscripts written to make CD/DVD-burning in the console easier, without the need for a lot of libraries like GTK or QT for a pretty GUI. This is a placeholder page. Go to the homepage to download the latest version or access the code.

A KDE frontend to CD burning, and CD ripping tools, as well as encoders, decoders, and other audio tools. Currently supports many popular audio formats (decoding/burning, and ripping/encoding), as well as data burning, and basic image creation.

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