CDDA paranoia AlternativesCD Rippers and other similar apps like CDDA paranoia

CDDA paranoia is described as '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' and is a CD Ripper in the audio & music category. There are more than 50 alternatives to CDDA paranoia for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Web-based and BSD apps. The best CDDA paranoia alternative is fre:ac, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like CDDA paranoia are XMedia Recode, Exact Audio Copy, X Lossless Decoder and MediaCoder.

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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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • PortableApps.com
    • Wine
    • Haiku
     
    • fre:ac is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to CDDA paranoia.

    • fre:ac is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to CDDA paranoia.

    • fre:ac is Free and Open SourceCDDA paranoia is also Free and Open Source
    • fre:ac is LightweightCDDA paranoia is not according to our users
  2. XMedia Recode icon
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    XMedia Recode can convert nearly all popular audio and video formats including 3GP, 3GPP, 3GPP2, AAC, AC3, AMR, ASF, AVI, AVISynth, DVD, FLAC, FLV, H.261, H.263, H.264, M4A , M1V, M2V, M4V, Matroska (MKV), MMF, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, TS, TRP, MP2, MP3, MP4, MP4V, MOV, OGG, PSP...

    111 XMedia Recode alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    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/.

    31 X Lossless Decoder alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
     
  4. MediaCoder icon
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    MediaCoder is a free universal batch media transcoder, which nicely integrates most popular audio/video codecs and tools into an all-in-one solution. With a flexible and extendable architecture, new codecs and tools are added in constantly as well as supports for new devices.

    162 MediaCoder alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. Audioer icon
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    One-click conversion of all audio files to MP3 format. Supports seamless conversion between multiple audio formats with simple operation and fast processing.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once or Subscription)
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
     
  6. 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...

    78 dBpoweramp alternatives

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
    • dBpoweramp is the most popular commercial alternative to CDDA paranoia.

    • dBpoweramp is Paid and ProprietaryCDDA paranoia is Free and Open Source
  7. LameXP icon
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    LameXP is an Audio Encoder Front-End, a graphical user-interface for a number of audio encoders. It was developed to support a huge number of input formats. File formats are detected reliably using MediaInfo.

    50 LameXP alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
     
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    Free application that converts audio files to MP3, AAC, AC3, E-AC3, WMA, FLAC, M4A, OGG, Opus, WavPack, AIFF, MKA or WAV format. Moreover, the program allows extraction of audio tracks from video files without loss of sound quality.

    65 Pazera Free Audio Extractor alternatives

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
    • Wine
     
  9. 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.

    34 CDex alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Alerts

    • Bundleware
    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
     
  10. ffWorks icon
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    ffWorks (formerly iFFmpeg) is a graphical front-end for FFmpeg , a command-line tool used to convert multimedia files between formats. The command line instructions can be very hard to master/understand, so ffWorks does all the hard work for...

    148 ffWorks alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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