The Best 44 RIP Alternatives

  • Format Factory icon

    Format Factory

    Format Factory is a multifunctional media converter and DVD ripper. It will convert (and compress): -Any video file or DVD to MP4/3GP/MPG/AVI/WMV/FLV/SWF. -Any audio file or CD to MP3/WMA/AMR/OGG/AAC/WAV.

    Free Windows

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    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

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    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

  • File Converter

    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.

    Free Open Source Windows Windows Explorer

  • 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

  • Audiograbber

    Audiograbber grabs digital audio from CDs, it can automatically normalize the music, delete silence from the start and/or end of tracks, and encode them to a variety of formats including MP3.

    Free Windows

  • XRECODE

    XRECODE can convert multiple audio files in parallel by taking full advantage of multi-core CPU. Can also extract audio from video files. Features - Works on XP, Vista, Windows 7 32/64 bit versions.

    Commercial Windows

  • morituri

    morituri is a CD ripper aiming for accuracy over speed. Its features are modeled to compare with Exact Audio Copy on Windows. morituri was created to address the gaps in existing Linux software.

    Free Open Source Linux

  • CUERipper

    CUERipper is a utility for extracting digital audio from CDs, an open-source alternative to EAC. It has a lot fewer configuration options, so is somewhat easier to use, and is included in CUETools package.

    Free Open Source Windows

  • 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