Grip AlternativesCD Rippers and other similar apps like Grip

Grip is described as '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' and is a CD Ripper in the cd/dvd tools category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Grip for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and PortableApps.com apps. The best Grip alternative is fre:ac, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Grip are Exact Audio Copy, CDex, EZ CD Audio Converter and abcde.

Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard
Grip alternatives page was last updated

Alternatives list

  1. fre:ac icon
     243 likes

    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

    Cost / License

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • PortableApps.com
    • Wine
    • Haiku
     
    • fre:ac is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Grip.

    • fre:ac is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Grip.

    • fre:ac is Free and Open SourceGrip is also Free and Open Source
    • fre:ac is LightweightGrip is not according to our users
  2. CDex icon
     66 likes

    CDex is a CD-Ripper, extracting digital audio data from an Audio CD. The application supports many Audio encoders, including WAV, MP3, AAC, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, VQF, Musepack, APE, and many others.

    34 CDex alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Bundleware
    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
     
  3. EZ CD Audio Converter is the most comprehensive multi format audio converter and is extremely easy to use.

    66 EZ CD Audio Converter alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
    • EZ CD Audio Converter is the most popular commercial alternative to Grip.

    • EZ CD Audio Converter is Paid and ProprietaryGrip is Free and Open Source
  4. abcde icon
     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

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  5. CUERipper icon
     12 likes

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. Express Rip icon
     4 likes

    Express Rip CD ripper can convert CD audio to mp3 or wav file formats. Express Rip lets you rip, convert, encode, and decode music and other audio tracks directly to files on your hard drive.

    36 Express Rip alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. Asunder icon
     28 likes

    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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  8. Goobox icon
     5 likes

    Goobox is a CD player for the GNOME desktop environment.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  9. Max CD Ripper icon
     18 likes

    Max is an application for creating high-quality audio files in various formats, from compact discs or files.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  10. CDDA paranoia icon
     2 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
12 of 23 Grip alternatives