Grip Alternatives

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 25 alternatives to Grip for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, BSD, Mac 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, Asunder and EZ CD Audio Converter.

Grip alternatives are mainly CD Rippers but may also be Audio Converters. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of Grip.

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Grip

Free • Open Source
CD Ripper

Grip is a CD-player/ripper for the Gnome desktop. It has the ripping capabilities of cdparanoia built in, but can also use...

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fre:ac
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Free • Open Source
Audio Converter
CD Ripper
Mac
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PortableApps.com
Wine
107 fre:ac alternatives
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.
- - fre:ac is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Grip.
- - fre:ac is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Grip.
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fre:ac Features
1. Lossless Audiofre:ac has lossless audio support, basically studio quality sound.
2. Ad-freefre:ac doesn't contain any form of external advertising.
3. Works Offlinefre:ac can be used without the need to connect to the internet.
4. Portablefre:ac can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
Multiple tracks at once
Media Transcoding
CDDB access
Batch processing
AAC
ALAC support
OGG
Opus codec support
Exact Audio Copy
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Free Personal • Proprietary
CD Ripper
Windows
50 Exact Audio Copy alternatives
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 Features
1. Lossless AudioExact Audio Copy has lossless audio support, basically studio quality sound.
CDex
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Free • Proprietary
CD Ripper
Windows
PortableApps.com
37 CDex alternatives
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.
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CDex Features
1. PortableCDex can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
Multiple languages
Bundleware
The installer contains adwares. Be careful during the installation: https://alternativeto.net/discussions/applications/11718/be-careful-in-the-installation/
Asunder
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Free • Open Source
CD Ripper
Linux
BSD
45 Asunder alternatives
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.
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EZ CD Audio Converter
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Paid • Proprietary
CD Ripper
Audio Converter
Windows
77 EZ CD Audio Converter alternatives
EZ CD Audio Converter is the most comprehensive multi format audio converter and is extremely easy to use.
- - EZ CD Audio Converter is the most popular commercial alternative to Grip.
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EZ CD Audio Converter Features
Audio Analysis
Edit metadata
Sound Juicer
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Free • Open Source
CD Ripper
Audio Converter
Linux
BSD
48 Sound Juicer alternatives
Sound Juicer is a CD ripping tool using GTK+ and GStreamer.
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Sound Juicer Features
CD Player
GNOME3 integration
Audio Extraction
Max CD Ripper
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Free • Open Source
CD Ripper
Mac
28 Max CD Ripper alternatives
Max is an application for creating high-quality audio files in various formats, from compact discs or files.
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Max CD Ripper Features
1. Lossless AudioMax CD Ripper has lossless audio support, basically studio quality sound.
Discontinued
The official website is no longer available. Last version, v0.9.2-beta.4, released in September 2020, can be still downloaded from GitHub
Audiograbber
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Freemium • Proprietary
CD Ripper
Windows
41 Audiograbber alternatives
Audiograbber grabs digital audio from CDs, it can automatically normalize the music, delete silence from the start and/or end of tracks, and encode them to a variety of formats including MP3. It can also access freedb, an Internet compact disc database.
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Discontinued
Audiograbber site has been taken over by a malware distributor. Downloaded files are not program but unwanted software. https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/fa395eb7a30aaeb0f9ef0d015bd83e816063eb81703c621d8e537b038813c300/analysis/1422929211/
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This software was discontinued and is now a malware distribution site. See https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/3d275b6e35ecb1457be64ea1df90493ec769c01ed5b2978bd126b54fc24d5d58/analysis/1485989669/
whipper
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Free • Open Source
CD Ripper
Linux
11 whipper alternatives
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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1. Command line interfacewhipper either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
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CUERipper
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Free • Open Source
CD Ripper
Windows
23 CUERipper alternatives
CUERipper is a utility for extracting digital audio from CDs, an open-source alternative to EAC.
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CUERipper Features
1. Lossless AudioCUERipper has lossless audio support, basically studio quality sound.
2. LightweightCUERipper consumes less device resources compared to similar apps.
3. PortableCUERipper can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
Audio Extraction
morituri
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Free • Open Source
CD Ripper
Linux
32 morituri alternatives
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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morituri Features
1. Command line interfacemorituri either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
Discontinued
The project is no longer developed. Last version, 0.2.3, released in July 2014, can be still downloaded from GitHub.
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Express Rip
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Free Personal • Proprietary
CD Ripper
Windows
39 Express Rip alternatives
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.
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Express Rip Features
Audio Extraction
AAC