whipper

whipper is built on cdparanoia but uses the AccurateRip database to verify the accuracy of your rip: https://github.com/whipper-team/whipper Or you can run EAC in wine.

This tool will dump subchannel data: https://github.com/superg/redumper Be aware that the dumps are pretty huge, and requires a compatible optical drive to work, and take a while to generate. If you just want pure audio data, something like: https://github.com/whipper-team/whipper may be better, but also has drive restrictions.

I've been using https://github.com/whipper-team/whipper to digitize CD's, and it supports identifying Hidden Track One Audio (HTOA) when it exists and is not blank. Add in MusicBrainz Picard and Navidrome and you have a really nice solution.

https://github.com/whipper-team/whipper https://github.com/thomas-mc-work/most-possible-unattended-r... Finding a good CD drive to rip them is the first step. https://flemmingss.com/importing-data-from-discogs-and-other... IME Discogs had the track data most often. And obviously rip to flac

There are some highly opinionated open source tools that do this, like whipper. Getting it all working is.. a bit frustrating. I do wish that whipper had more knobs to tweak rather than being very opinionated in how it rips and what it outputs. For fixing up metadata of your existing collection there is Picard. https://github.com/whipper-team/whipper https://picard.musicbrainz.org/

Buying bluray and dvd movies and CDs on ebay or craigslist (or better yet: finding in little free libraries while walking) and ripping them to disk and then serving locally (via jellyfin and mopidy) and selectively copying onto phone/table SD cards (e.g. before traveling) has gone pretty well for me. It's pretty cheap, has the convenience of digital media, feels like I have full control, and is legal. I often bring HDMI cords with me on vacation to hook up laptop to TV for showing. Really been loving whipper for CD encoding https://github.com/whipper-team/whipper

I have a music library on my home server that I use mopidy to play via the iris plugin integrated into my home assistant UI. It plays over Snapcast which streams over the network to multiple devices in the home with independent volume control. I can fire up the Snapcast client in my phone to get it going there as well, which does work over vpn if I'm away, though I generally just fire up the files from my phones SD card for out-of-home listening. I recently started using whipper on Linux to extract audio from craigslist cds. https://mopidy.com/ https://mopidy.com/ext/iris/ https://github.com/badaix/snapcast https://github.com/whipper-team/whipper

Packages are available for just about any distro in the next heading. Source is available as well (obviously). Still not a single binary but as you note with it being written in python and based on cdparanoia, etc how would that work? It's based on python with relatively obscure requirements[0] that also calls out to system binaries. Looking at the Dockerfile[1] it is built with specific revs of component software to work around various issues. Take a look at the build docs and you'll see just how many existing projects (python and otherwise) it takes to deliver the end result. IMO Docker is one of the "best" and most straightforward ways to package up all of this with the end result (as usual) putting any Linux user two commands away from ripping a disc. [0] - https://github.com/whipper-team/whipper/blob/develop/require... [1] - https://

>Docker Maybe it's just me but when I see Docker with a project like this I already zone out. This is still just based on cdparanoia/cdrdao [0]. I wish people would just push single portable binaries instead of starting the whole process with Docker (especially when the source code is alreaedy available) 0, https://github.com/whipper-team/whipper/blob/develop/whipper... 0, https://github.com/whipper-team/whipper/blob/develop/whipper...

I've gone down this rabbit hole for audio CDs a few months ago. In addition to Exact Audio Copy (Windows only, proprietary) I was able to find some open source tools that should (haven't compared to EAC directly yet) achieve the same result. One of the still maintained tools is [whipper](https://github.com/whipper-team/whipper). I've used it to successfully rip a few CDs, though in my case that wasn't really a challenge due to the good condition the CDs were in.

If you care about accurate rips on Linux, the best tool to use is whipper: https://github.com/whipper-team/whipper. It makes use of the AccurateRip database, which is used to calculate the statistics. I don't know about any other native Linux application that makes use of it. Other tools like cdparanoia, and all the other wrappers around it, just attempt to read it multiple times and still get the wrong result, as the post shows.

In addition to what others have said (FLAC is lossless but compressed, and about 50% smaller than WAV), FLAC (plus a few other tiny files) is also the de facto format for archiving audio CDs (it can do other quality than CD quality, but it's mostly used to backup CDs). When you rip one of your CD, a good ripper shall verify that your rip is 100% bit perfect (by verifying that the hash of your rip matches an online database of hashes of CDs ripped by other people). These rippers typically do rip to FLAC. FWIW on Linux I've had good luck with "whipper" in the past (haven't ripped any CD that recently) [1] [1] https://github.com/whipper-team/whipper

Heh, nice :-) Yeah, cmus is incredibly convenient for rapid playlist management once you learn the shortcuts, (there's an excellent quick tutorial $ man cmus-tutorial). I mostly use 7digital & HDTracks to acquire FLACs these days, but when I rip from CDs, I use https://github.com/whipper-team/whipper to do the job. FLACs from 7d/HDTracks are already named & tagged properly so I only deal with it occasionally and when I do, https://picard.musicbrainz.org works well for acquiring tags & artwork. When I need to rename/tag manually, https://kid3.sourceforge.io has been working nicely. Also I haven't used it myself, but there's a lot of positive chatter around https://github.com/beetbox/beets for tagging etc. I just prefer not to have my files touched in such an automated way :-) I rarely actually convert from FLACs these days, since I have se