Laser AlternativesCD Rippers and other similar apps like Laser

Laser is described as 'A simple CD ripper for the GNOME desktop' and is a CD Ripper in the audio & music category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Laser for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, BSD and PortableApps.com apps. The best Laser alternative is fre:ac, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Laser 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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    • 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

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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
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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  5. 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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    Platforms

    • Windows
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  6. 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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  7. 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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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  8. Goobox icon
     5 likes

    Goobox is a CD player for the GNOME desktop environment.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
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  9. CDDA paranoia icon
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    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.

    91 CDDA paranoia alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
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  10. Grip icon
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    Grip is a 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...

    23 Grip alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
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