Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-2.0)
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- PortableApps.com
- Wine
- Haiku




cyanrip is described as 'Fully featured CD ripping command line program able to take out most of the tedium. Fully accurate, has advanced features most rippers don't, yet has no bloat and is cross-platform' and is a CD Ripper in the audio & music category. There are seven alternatives to cyanrip for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, BSD, PortableApps.com and Wine apps. The best cyanrip alternative is fre:ac, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like cyanrip are Exact Audio Copy, dBpoweramp, CUERipper and Asunder.




EAC is used to convert the tracks on standard audio CDs to wav files, which can then be transcoded into formats such as MP3, Ogg Vorbis, WavPack, and FLAC using external encoders.




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...


CUERipper is a utility for extracting digital audio from CDs, an open-source alternative to EAC.

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.




Whipper is a Python 2.7 CD-DA ripper, fork of the morituri project (CDDA ripper for *nix systems aiming for accuracy over speed) and representing its ongoing development, providing bugfixes and new features. Uses cdparanoia, MusicBrainz, AccurateRip.