I tried fre:ac but got an error from cddb when trying to connect to the database. Looking to rip to both FLAC and to Opus. Ideally with the latest codec updates.

Any recommendations?

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    If you’re okay using WINE, EAC is the best CD audio ripping software. Here’s a decent setup guide: https://eacguide.github.io/

    Don’t use cddb, use the optional CUETools DB plugin that can be installed during the EAC installation.

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    Cdparanoia to make sure I get a good rip. Then flacenc to convert to flac. Then Picard to tag and organize it.

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    I usually use grip, but I think that’s not maintained anymore.

    Dragging and dropping in KDE usually works as well. It has a built-in ripper, presenting an audio cd as wav, ogg, mp3 or flac files.

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    Just ripped a friend’s entire collection using cyanrip. Might be more powerful tools out there but I wanted something from the CLI.

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      Is there any additional documentation or forum beyond the github readme

      Edit: Is there a cheat-sheet of whipper commands?

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        -h for help should list commands, and it’s nested so you can get help for each subcommand. You’ll want to read the Getting Started section.

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    cdparanoia is old but has always worked fine, even on crappy drives and damaged disks. Even many modern tools like cyanrip just use cdparanoia to do the actual ripping, just wrapping it in a new UI. You will need to convert the output with another tool, but this is quite easy. (For mp3 disks, just mount them and copy the files, no special tools needed)

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    Most of the software people are suggesting here is ancient. A lot of it does not support accurip checks or drive offset correction, which I consider to be essential features. Don’t use abcde, I made that mistake a few years ago

    cyanrip is definitely the way to go, there really is no alternative that has the same feature set. Other than EAC in wine if you require scorable 100% log files.

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    10 months ago

    Asunder CD Ripper is pretty much the only one I’ve ever used and it’s great.

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    fre:ac

    A free audio converter and CD ripper with support for various popular formats and encoders. It converts freely between MP3, M4A/AAC, FLAC, WMA, Opus, Ogg Vorbis, Speex, Monkey’s Audio (APE), WavPack, WAV and other formats.

    With fre:ac you easily rip your audio CDs to MP3 or M4A files for use with your hardware player or convert files that do not play with other audio software. You can even convert whole music libraries retaining the folder and filename structure.

    The integrated CD ripper supports the CDDB/GNUdb online CD database. It will automatically query song information and write it to ID3v2 or other title information tags.

    https://www.freac.org/

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      I actually forgot the name, so long ago that I ripped audio cds but now that I read it, I have an acute attack of nostalgia. Awesome program! Thanks for the nostalgia btw.