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 25 alternatives to Exact Audio Copy and 18 are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to Exact Audio Copy are K3b, FormatLab, abcde and Asunder.

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Exact Audio Copy alternatives are mainly CD Rippers, but if you're looking for Audio Converters or Video Converters you can filter on that. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to Exact Audio Copy.
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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.

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Exact Audio Copy alternatives page was last updated Dec 8, 2024
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    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

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Country of Origin

    • DE flagGermany
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • PortableApps.com
    • Wine
    Main window converting FLAC files to MP3

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Audio Conversion
    2.  Media Transcoding
    3.  Multiple tracks at once
    4.  CDDB access
    5.  Batch processing
    6.  Lossless Audio
    7.  Ad-free
    8.  AAC
    9.  ALAC support
    10.  No registration required
    11.  Works Offline
    12.  Portable

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    Comments about fre:ac as an Alternative to Exact Audio Copy
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    Positive •May 25, 2018
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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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    • Most users think fre:ac is a great Exact Audio Copy alternative.

    • fre:ac is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Exact Audio Copy.

    • fre:ac is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Exact Audio Copy.

    • 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
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    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...

    51 K3b alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Country of Origin

    • DE flagGermany
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    • KDE
    K3b screenshot 1

    K3b Features

    1.  CD Burner
    2.  DVD Burner
    3.  Ad-free

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    FormatLab

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

    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Application types

    Country of Origin

    • IN flagIndia

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Snapcraft
    • Flathub
    FormatLab screenshot 1

    FormatLab Features

    1.  Ad-free
    2.  No registration required
    3.  Dark Mode

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    abcde

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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.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    abcde ripping and encoding a CD
    Discontinued

    The last version (2.9.3) is from February 2019.

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Ad-free
    2.  Lossless Audio
    3.  OGG

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    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

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    Ripping progress

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    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.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux

    whipper Features

    1.  Command line interface

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    soundKonverter

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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.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    soundKonverter screenshot 1
    Discontinued

    Development has stopped, and the GitHub repository has been archived.

    soundKonverter Features

    1.  Export to WAV
    2.  OGG
    3.  Multiple languages
    4.  Replay Gain
    5.  Normalize Volume

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    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.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Linux

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    morituri

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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.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • BE flagBelgium
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Linux
    Discontinued

    The project is no longer developed. Last version, 0.2.3, released in July 2014, can be still downloaded from GitHub.

    morituri Features

    1.  Command line interface

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    Sound Juicer

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

    48 Sound Juicer alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    Sound Juicer screenshot 1

    Sound Juicer Features

    1.  CD Player
    2.  GNOME3 integration
    3.  Audio Extraction

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    Rubyripper

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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.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • NL flagNetherlands
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    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.

    Rubyripper Features

    1.  Command line interface
    2.  Audio Extraction

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    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...

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    Grip in condensed, CD-player mode

    Grip Features

    1.  Audio Extraction

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