CD rippers

[Adam Funk]

On 2013-05-23, David Fletcher wrote:

> On Thu, 2013-05-23 at 11:28 +0100, R Kimber wrote:
>> Is there an alternative to using cdparanoia?  Or, at least, is there a
>> ripping program that will report that cdparanoia may not have made an
>> accurate rip?
>> 
>> I've tried rubyripper, audex, k3b, and ripoff.
>> 
>> - Richard.
>
> Last time I wanted to rip a couple of CDs I found that my previous
> favourite application had gone out of support or something, and anything
> else GUI didn't seem to let me set the same options.

I used to use grip; I think ripperx was a pretty good replacement (at
least for my purposes), but...

> So, now I just put the CD in the drive, type jack from a terminal, and
> it just does it. It's a big plus that I can use a good old plain text
> editor to tweak the config file. Not sure if it calls up cdparanoia or
> not but it works best for me.

I now use abcde from the command line.  It has easy options for
generating M4As (which I need on some devices) & I can edit the track
listing in my choice of editor.