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 Asunder, soundKonverter, Sound Juicer and morituri.

CDex alternatives are mainly CD Rippers but may also be Audio Converters or Video Converters. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of CDex.

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CDex

Free • Proprietary
CD Ripper

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CDex is a CD-Ripper, extracting digital audio data from an Audio CD. The application supports many Audio encoders,...

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fre:ac
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Free • Open Source
Audio Converter
CD Ripper
Mac
Windows
Linux
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Wine
106 alternatives to fre:ac
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.
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fre:ac Features
1. Ad-freefre:ac doesn't contain any form of external advertising.
2. Lossless Audiofre:ac has lossless audio support, basically studio quality sound.
3. Portablefre:ac can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
Multiple tracks at once
Media Transcoding
CDDB access
Batch processing
AAC
ALAC support
OGG
Opus codec support
fre:ac vs CDex opinions
Most users think fre:ac is a great 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.
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Asunder
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Free • Open Source
CD Ripper
Linux
BSD
45 alternatives to Asunder
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.

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soundKonverter
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Free • Open Source
Audio Converter
CD Ripper
Linux
BSD
66 alternatives to soundKonverter
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.
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soundKonverter Features
Export to WAV
OGG
Multiple languages
Replay Gain
Normalize Volume
Discontinued
Development has stopped, and the GitHub repository has been archived.
Sound Juicer
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Free • Open Source
CD Ripper
Audio Converter
Linux
BSD
48 alternatives to Sound Juicer
Sound Juicer is a CD ripping tool using GTK+ and GStreamer.
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Sound Juicer Features
CD Player
GNOME3 integration
Audio Extraction
morituri
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Free • Open Source
CD Ripper
Linux
32 alternatives to morituri
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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morituri Features
1. Command line interfacemorituri either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
Discontinued
The project is no longer developed. Last version, 0.2.3, released in July 2014, can be still downloaded from GitHub.
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Rubyripper
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Free • Open Source
CD Ripper
Mac
Linux
33 alternatives to Rubyripper
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.
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Rubyripper Features
1. Command line interfaceRubyripper either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
Audio Extraction
Discontinued
The project has been abandoned on March 2014. Last version, 0.6.2, released on December 2011, can be still downloaded from Google Code.
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Goobox
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Free • Open Source
CD Ripper
Linux
46 alternatives to Goobox
Goobox is a CD player for the GNOME desktop environment.
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Goobox Features
CD Player
Grip
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Free • Open Source
CD Ripper
Linux
27 alternatives to Grip
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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Grip Features
Audio Extraction
ripperX
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Free • Open Source
CD Ripper
Linux
BSD
29 alternatives to ripperX
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.

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XCFA (X Convert File Audio)
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Free • Open Source
CD Ripper
Audio Converter
Linux
Ubuntu
34 alternatives to XCFA (X Convert File Audio)
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.

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