CDDA paranoia AlternativesCD Rippers and other similar apps like CDDA paranoia

CDDA paranoia is described as 'Audio CD digital audio extraction application cdparanoia. Cdparanoia extracts audio from compact discs directly as data, with no analog step between, and writes the data to a file or pipe in WAV, AIFC, AIFC or raw 16 bit linear PCM' and is a CD Ripper in the audio & music category. There are more than 50 alternatives to CDDA paranoia for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Web-based and BSD apps. The best CDDA paranoia alternative is fre:ac, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like CDDA paranoia are XMedia Recode, Exact Audio Copy, X Lossless Decoder and MediaCoder.

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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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    • Mac
    • Windows
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    • BSD
    • PortableApps.com
    • Wine
    • Haiku
     
  2. XMedia Recode icon
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    XMedia Recode can convert nearly all popular audio and video formats including 3GP, 3GPP, 3GPP2, AAC, AC3, AMR, ASF, AVI, AVISynth, DVD, FLAC, FLV, H.261, H.263, H.264, M4A , M1V, M2V, M4V, Matroska (MKV), MMF, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, TS, TRP, MP2, MP3, MP4, MP4V, MOV, OGG, PSP...

    113 XMedia Recode alternatives

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
  3. 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.

    48 Exact Audio Copy alternatives

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    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
  4. 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/.

    31 X Lossless Decoder alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
     
  5. MediaCoder icon
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    MediaCoder is a free universal batch media transcoder, which nicely integrates most popular audio/video codecs and tools into an all-in-one solution. With a flexible and extendable architecture, new codecs and tools are added in constantly as well as supports for new devices.

    164 MediaCoder alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
     
  6. Audioer icon
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    One-click conversion of all audio files to MP3 format. Supports seamless conversion between multiple audio formats with simple operation and fast processing.

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
     
  7. 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...

    79 dBpoweramp alternatives

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    • Paid
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    • Windows
     
  8. LameXP icon
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    LameXP is an Audio Encoder Front-End, a graphical user-interface for a number of audio encoders. It was developed to support a huge number of input formats. File formats are detected reliably using MediaInfo.

    50 LameXP alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
     
  9. Free application that converts audio files to MP3, AAC, AC3, E-AC3, WMA, FLAC, M4A, OGG, Opus, WavPack, AIFF, MKA or WAV format. Moreover, the program allows extraction of audio tracks from video files without loss of sound quality.

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
    • Wine
     
  10. CDex icon
     66 likes

    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.

    34 CDex alternatives

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Bundleware
    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
     
  11. ffWorks icon
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    ffWorks (formerly iFFmpeg) is a graphical front-end for FFmpeg , a command-line tool used to convert multimedia files between formats. The command line instructions can be very hard to master/understand, so ffWorks does all the hard work for...

    151 ffWorks alternatives

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    • Paid
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    • Mac
     
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