Exact Audio Copy AlternativesOnly apps categorised as CD Rippers for Linux

Exact Audio Copy is not available for Linux but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on Linux with similar functionality. The best Linux CD Ripper 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 15 are CD Rippers available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux CD Ripper alternatives to Exact Audio Copy are K3b, abcde, Asunder and whipper.

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

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    • fre:ac is Free and Open SourceExact Audio Copy is Free Personal and Proprietary
    • fre:ac is LightweightExact Audio Copy is not according to our users
  2. K3b icon
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    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...

    52 K3b alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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  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.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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  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
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    • Linux
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  5. whipper icon
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    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.

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  6. 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
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    • Discontinued

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  7. 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.

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    • Free
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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.

    30 morituri alternatives

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    • Discontinued

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  9. Sound Juicer icon
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    Sound Juicer is a CD ripping tool using GTK+ and GStreamer.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
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  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
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  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...

    25 Grip alternatives

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    • Free
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  12. Goobox icon
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    Goobox is a CD player for the GNOME desktop environment.

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    • Free
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