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




Grip is described as 'CD-player/ripper for the Gnome desktop. It has the ripping capabilities of cdparanoia built in, but can also use external rippers (such as cdda2wav). It also provides an automated frontend for various audio encoders (including MP3 and Vorbis), letting you take a disc' and is a CD Ripper in the cd/dvd tools category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Grip for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and PortableApps.com apps. The best Grip alternative is fre:ac, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Grip are Exact Audio Copy, CDex, EZ CD Audio Converter and abcde.




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.




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.