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fre:ac vs Exact Audio Copy Comments


- fre:ac is Free and Open Source
- fre:ac is Lightweight
Exact Audio Copy is not available for BSD but there are some alternatives with similar functionality. The best BSD alternative is fre:ac, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Exact Audio Copy and eight of them are available for BSD so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting BSD alternatives to Exact Audio Copy are K3b, Asunder, soundKonverter and Sound Juicer.






K3b is a CD and DVD authoring application for the KDE desktop environment for Unix-like computer operating systems. It provides a graphical user interface to perform most CD/DVD burning tasks like creating an Audio CD from a set of audio files or copying a CD/DVD, as well as...

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.



soundKonverter is a frontend to various audio converters. The key features are: Audio conversion. En-/decoding. Replay Gain. CD ripping. It is extendable by plugins and supports many backends. It supports reading and writing tags for many formats, so the tags are preserved when c.




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.


Because EAC has problems with some CD drives but fre:ac does not. There is no alternative nearly as good as fre:ac.