CDex Alternatives for Linux

CDex is not available for Linux but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on Linux with similar functionality. The best Linux 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 CDex and 12 are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to CDex are soundKonverter, abcde, Sound Juicer and Asunder.

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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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    • PortableApps.com
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    Comments about fre:ac as an Alternative to CDex
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    Works nicely for ripping my CD. CDex is killed by Win10 on my PC and I?did not find why.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • fre:ac is Free and Open SourceCDex is Free and Proprietary
    • fre:ac is LightweightCDex is not according to our users
  2. soundKonverter icon
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    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.

    72 soundKonverter alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  3. 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

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    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  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

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  5. 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
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    • Linux
     
  6. XCFA is a tool to extract the contens of Audio-CDs and convert musical audio files conversion to FLAC, WAV, OGG, M4A, MPC, MP3, WavPack and many other formats.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
    • Ubuntu
     
  7. Goobox icon
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    Goobox is a CD player for the GNOME desktop environment.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
     
  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.

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    • Discontinued

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  9. ripperX icon
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    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

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    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  10. 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

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    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  11. 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...

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    • Free
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