Exact Audio Copy Alternatives 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 alternative is fre:ac, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Exact Audio Copy and many of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to Exact Audio Copy are K3b, whipper, Asunder and abcde.

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  1. fre:ac icon

    fre:ac

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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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    • BSD
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    • Haiku
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    Main window converting FLAC files to MP3
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  2. K3b icon

    K3b

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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...

    46 K3b alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
    • BSD
    • KDE
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  4. whipper icon

    whipper

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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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  5. Asunder icon

    Asunder

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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
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    Ripping progress
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  6. abcde icon

    abcde

     3 likes

    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
    abcde ripping and encoding a CD
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  8. FormatLab icon

    FormatLab

     6 likes

    FormatLab is a Powerful Tool for Converting Video and Audio files and supports almost All Formats with modern and widely supported codecs.

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary (MIT)

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    • Linux
    • Snapcraft
    • Flathub
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    FormatLab screenshot 1
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  9. soundKonverter icon

    soundKonverter

     19 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    • Linux
    • BSD
    soundKonverter screenshot 1
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  10. CDDA paranoia icon

    CDDA paranoia

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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
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
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  11. morituri icon

    morituri

     8 likes

    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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  13. Rubyripper icon

    Rubyripper

     8 likes

    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.

    30 Rubyripper alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
    • Linux
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  14. Grip icon

    Grip

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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...

    23 Grip alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
    Grip in condensed, CD-player mode
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