Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-2.0)
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- PortableApps.com
- Wine
- Haiku




Comments about fre:ac as an Alternative to CUERipper


- fre:ac is Free and Open Source
CUERipper is described as 'Utility for extracting digital audio from CDs, an open-source alternative to EAC' and is a CD Ripper in the cd/dvd tools category. There are more than 10 alternatives to CUERipper for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, BSD, Mac and PortableApps.com apps. The best CUERipper alternative is fre:ac, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like CUERipper are Exact Audio Copy, dBpoweramp, CDex and EZ CD Audio Converter.






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.




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...


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.




EZ CD Audio Converter is the most comprehensive multi format audio converter and is extremely easy to use.




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.




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.




Max is an application for creating high-quality audio files in various formats, from compact discs or files.

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.
fre@ac allows multiple encoding in a single pass - e.g. flac + mp3. However CUERipper automatically downloads album art and requires no configuration to get started