Grip AlternativesCD Rippers and other similar apps like Grip

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 Linux, Windows, 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, EZ CD Audio Converter, CDex and CUERipper.

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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
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • PortableApps.com
    • Wine
    • 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

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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  3. 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

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
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  4. CUERipper icon
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    CUERipper is a utility for extracting digital audio from CDs, an open-source alternative to EAC.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
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  5. abcde icon
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    Grab an entire CD and compress it to Ogg/Vorbis, MP3, FLAC, AAC, Ogg/Speex and/or MPP/MP+(Musepack) format.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
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  6. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  7. 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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  8. 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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    • Linux
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  9. Max CD Ripper icon
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    Max is an application for creating high-quality audio files in various formats, from compact discs or files.

    25 Max CD Ripper alternatives

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    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
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  10. Goobox icon
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    Goobox is a CD player for the GNOME desktop environment.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
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