Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-2.0)
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- PortableApps.com
- Wine
- Haiku




Laser is described as 'A simple CD ripper for the GNOME desktop' and is a CD Ripper in the audio & music category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Laser for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, BSD and PortableApps.com apps. The best Laser alternative is fre:ac, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Laser are Exact Audio Copy, X Lossless Decoder, EZ CD Audio Converter and dBpoweramp.




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.




X Lossless Decoder (XLD) is a tool for Mac OS X that is able to decode/convert/play various 'lossless' audio files. The supported audio files can be split into some tracks with cue sheet when decoding. It works on Mac OS X 10.3 and later. Supports: (Ogg) FLAC (.flac/.

EZ CD Audio Converter is the most comprehensive multi format audio converter and is extremely easy to use.




dBpoweramp contains a multitude of audio tools in one: CD Ripper, Music Converter, ID Tag Editor and Windows audio shell enhancements. Preloaded with mp3 & Wave codecs, practically every audio codec can be installed from Codec Central, as well as Utility Codecs (perform...


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

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.




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

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.
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...


