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fre:ac vs RIP Comments


- fre:ac is Free and Open Source
- fre:ac is Lightweight
The best open source alternative to RIP is fre:ac. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to RIP and 17 is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to RIP are File Converter, X Lossless Decoder, abcde and CUERipper.






File Converter is a very simple tool which allows you to convert and compress one or several file(s) using the context menu in Windows Explorer.


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/.

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

QWinFF is a GUI for FFmpeg, a powerful command-line media converter. FFmpeg can read audio and video files in various formats and convert them into other formats. QWinFF provides an intuitive graphical interface and a rich set of presets to help you use ffmpeg easily without...

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.



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.
I haven't tried it yet but looks good