Exact Audio Copy

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.

Free Personal Windows

fre:ac

fre:ac is a free audio converter and cd ripper with support for various formats and codecs. it will convert between mp3, mp4/m4a, wma, vorbis, flac, aac, wav and bonk formats.

Free Open Source Windows Linux BSD Mac Wine

CDex

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. Several languages are supported.

Free Windows

dBpoweramp

dBpoweramp contains a multitude of audio tools in one: CD Ripper, Music Converter, ID Tag Editor and Windows audio shell enhancements.

Commercial Windows

EZ CD Audio Converter

EZ CD Audio Converter is the most comprehensive multi format audio converter and is extremely easy to use. Rips audio CDs, converts audio files, allows editing of metadata, and burns discs.

Commercial Windows

Asunder

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, WavPack, Musepack, AAC, and Monkey's Audio files.

Free Open Source Linux BSD Xfce

Sound Juicer

Sound Juicer is a clean, mean, and lean CD ripper for GNOME 2. It sports a clean interface and simple preferences, aiming to do The Right Thing and What You Mean all of the time. It requires GNOME and GStreamer.

Free Open Source Linux BSD

Max

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

Free Open Source Mac OS X

Rubyripper

Rubyripper is a digital audio extraction algorithm that uses cdparanoia error correcting power and it's own secure ripping algorithm to make sure that a CD rip is done successfully and accurately.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Linux

Grip

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).

Free Open Source Linux

Goobox

Goobox is a CD player for the GNOME desktop environment.

Free Open Source Linux

ripperX

RipperX is a GTK program to rip CD audio tracks and encode them to the Ogg, MP3, or FLAC formats. Its goal is to be easy to use, requiring only a few mouse clicks to convert an entire album.

Free Open Source Linux BSD

Feurio!

Feurio! is an integrated software for creating audio CDs (especially samplers) it combines "Audio Grabbing" (digitally reading of an audio CD), a database for CDs (including CDDB support), a CD and Wave player, a simple Wave...

Free Windows

FreeRIP

FreeRIP is a Windows software that lets you extract audio CD tracks and save them to WMA, MP3, Ogg, Wav, or FLAC audio files (this process is known as CD ripping or CD to MP3 conversion).

Free Windows

whipper

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.

Free Open Source Linux

RIP

An application for accurate CD audio extraction

Free Open Source Mac OS X

Express Rip

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.

Free Personal Windows

CDDA paranoia

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.

Free Open Source Linux

DeepRipper

DeepRipper is freeware utility that is capable of converting audio CD tracks to a first-grade MP3, OGG or WAV files. It features a number of presets for less experienced users and full set of manual settings for experts.

Free Windows