whipper AlternativesCD Rippers and other similar apps like whipper

whipper is described as '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' and is a CD Ripper in the audio & music category. There are more than 10 alternatives to whipper for Linux, BSD, Windows and Mac. The best whipper alternative is Exact Audio Copy. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Exact Audio Copy or abcde. Other great apps like whipper are Asunder, Sound Juicer, CDDA paranoia and Audiograbber.

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  1. 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

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
  2. 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

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  3. 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
     
  4. 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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  5. Sound Juicer icon
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    Sound Juicer is a CD ripping tool using GTK+ and GStreamer.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  6. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  7. Audiograbber icon
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    Audiograbber grabs digital audio from CDs, it can automatically normalize the music, delete silence from the start and/or end of tracks, and encode them to a variety of formats including MP3. It can also access freedb, an Internet compact disc database.

    40 Audiograbber alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued
    • Warning

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. morituri icon
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    morituri is a CD ripper aiming for accuracy over speed. Its features are modeled to compare with Exact Audio Copy on Windows. morituri was created to address the gaps in existing Linux software.

    Cost / License

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  9. Rubyripper icon
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    Rubyripper is a digital audio extraction algorithm that uses cdparanoia error correcting power and it's own secure ripping algorithm to make sure that a CD rip is done successfully and accurately. It is very similar to and inspired by EAC.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  11. ripperX icon
     4 likes

    RipperX is a GTK program to rip CD audio tracks and encode them to the Ogg, MP3, or FLAC formats. Its goal is to be easy to use, requiring only a few mouse clicks to convert an entire album. It supports CDDB lookups for album and track information.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
     
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    Fully featured CD ripping command line program able to take out most of the tedium. Fully accurate, has advanced features most rippers don't, yet has no bloat and is cross-platform.

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
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