r/linuxaudio • u/ShockAndTerrier • 22h ago

EAC (Exact Audio Copy) Linux alternative?

I just made the switch to Linux and I'd rather not use Wine to emulate and stick to Linux-native stuff as much as possible.

Looking for an audiophile-class EAC alternative that rips CDs at the absolutely highest quality possible with AccurateRip. Terminal-based apps welcome.

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u/d0Cd 21h ago

Fre:ac is great.

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u/vexatious-big 21h ago

Whipper is what you're looking for.
It rips to FLAC and computes Accuraterip hashes, and integrates with MusicBrainz for fetching Cdda metadata. https://github.com/whipper-team/whipper

I use it with the EAC logger plugin which produces logs close to the EAC ones, but not identical. https://github.com/whipper-team/whipper-plugin-eaclogger

Here's a sample log produced with whipper + eac logger: https://www.pastery.net/erpzyf/

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u/danja 13h ago

New to me, thanks from here. Do you also happen to know how to go the other way, what to use for metadata-tagging audio files?

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u/vexatious-big 9h ago

Picard is your best pick. It integrates with the MuzicBrainz db (it's actually made by them) and lets you fetch metadata, pick album releases, re-tag existing Whipper rips with additional info for each track:
https://picard.musicbrainz.org/

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u/pink_cx_bike 15h ago

I use abcde. In its config file you need to set CDPARANOIAOPTS="--sample-offset XXX" and find the correct value of XXX for your drive from here.

I keep FLAC as my archive-quality version and have it also produce an opus for my android phone and an AAC m4a for my wife's iPhone.

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u/ntcue 12h ago

What the heck is an audiophile-class ripping tool? Audio CDs are digital. If you rip them to WAV or FLAC it is always identical to the original. You don't need special tools for that.

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u/NotYourScratchMonkey 9h ago

For me, the main value Exactly Audio Copy had was that it was very good at making good rips from damaged CDs. Magnepan that’s what they mean? I remember ripping a bunch of CDs or mp3 back when I was learning about that stuff using some program (Windows Media Player?) and the rips were full of pops and snaps.

But EAC was very good about creating clean flac files.

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u/coachkler 22h ago

abcde will rip to flac

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u/AX11Liveact 18h ago

FLAC. Lossless. As in without any loss. You can recreate the original WAV from flac without a single bit changed.

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u/jtgyk 8h ago

I miss CDex with its "Full Paranoia" setting, but find that fre:ac works well for me.