abcde AlternativesCD Rippers and other similar apps like abcde

abcde is described as 'Grab an entire CD and compress it to Ogg/Vorbis, MP3, FLAC, AAC, Ogg/Speex and/or MPP/MP+(Musepack) format' and is a CD Ripper in the audio & music category. There are more than 25 alternatives to abcde for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and PortableApps.com apps. The best abcde alternative is fre:ac, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like abcde are Exact Audio Copy, X Lossless Decoder, EZ CD Audio Converter and dBpoweramp.

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  1. fre:ac icon
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    fre:ac is a free audio converter and CD ripper with support for various formats and codecs. It will convert between MP3, MP4/M4A, FLAC, Vorbis, Opus, AAC, WAV, WMA and other formats.

    115 fre:ac alternatives

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    • PortableApps.com
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    • Haiku
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  2. Exact Audio Copy icon
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    EAC is used to convert the tracks on standard audio CDs to wav files, which can then be transcoded into formats such as MP3, Ogg Vorbis, WavPack, and FLAC using external encoders.

    51 Exact Audio Copy alternatives

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    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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  3. X Lossless Decoder (XLD) is a tool for Mac OS X that is able to decode/convert/play various 'lossless' audio files. The supported audio files can be split into some tracks with cue sheet when decoding. It works on Mac OS X 10.3 and later. Supports: (Ogg) FLAC (.flac/.

    34 X Lossless Decoder alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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  4. dBpoweramp icon
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    dBpoweramp contains a multitude of audio tools in one: CD Ripper, Music Converter, ID Tag Editor and Windows audio shell enhancements. Preloaded with mp3 & Wave codecs, practically every audio codec can be installed from Codec Central, as well as Utility Codecs (perform...

    80 dBpoweramp alternatives

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    • Paid
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    • Windows
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  5. CDex icon
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    CDex is a CD-Ripper, extracting digital audio data from an Audio CD. The application supports many Audio encoders, including WAV, MP3, AAC, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, VQF, Musepack, APE, and many others.

    32 CDex alternatives

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Bundleware
    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
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  6. Convert to it! is an open source, self-hosted file conversion program that works online and provides a choice between any two file formats. You can convert mp4 to png.

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    • Online
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  7. CUERipper icon
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    CUERipper is a utility for extracting digital audio from CDs, an open-source alternative to EAC.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
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  8. Express Rip icon
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    Express Rip CD ripper can convert CD audio to mp3 or wav file formats. Express Rip lets you rip, convert, encode, and decode music and other audio tracks directly to files on your hard drive.

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    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

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    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
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  9. XRECODE icon
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    XRECODE can convert multiple audio files in parallel by taking full advantage of multi-core CPU. Can also extract audio from video files.

    87 XRECODE alternatives

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    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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  10. Asunder icon
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    Asunder is a graphical Audio CD ripper and encoder for Linux. You can use it to save tracks from an Audio CD as any of WAV, MP3, OGG, FLAC, Opus, WavPack, Musepack, AAC, and Monkey's Audio files.

    45 Asunder alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
    • BSD
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  11. whipper icon
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    Whipper is a Python 2.7 CD-DA ripper, fork of the morituri project (CDDA ripper for *nix systems aiming for accuracy over speed) and representing its ongoing development, providing bugfixes and new features. Uses cdparanoia, MusicBrainz, AccurateRip.

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