Recommend me a Free, Audio Lossless CD ripper

googler

fenlander_uk wrote: »

Standard caution: what you propose to do is illegal, despite your caveats and warnings.

Only if the CDs to be copied are copyrighted product, despite the OP's caveats.

They may well be the owner's own recordings of their local Church choir, or other self-made items, in which case there's nothing to stop them.

tronator

psychic_teabag wrote: »

On linux I recently came across 'abcde' which is a useful (cmd-line) wrapper around other tools (which it autodetects) that do the work. (eg cdda database to figure out the track listing, and cdparanoia to actually do the reading, plus whatever encoder you want to use - defaults to ogg, but as above, flac is probably the best format for lossless.)

+1 for abcde

Once you made the changes like codec, path and eject CD after ripping, you the only need to run something like

while true;do abcde -d /dev/sr0 -N;done

and it will rip, eject and wait for the next cd in an endless loop until you exit with Ctrl+C.

Strider590 wrote: »

I use WinDac, it creates WAV files from your CDs, ...

FLAC is the way to go for lossless. It's only a third of the size of WAV.

esuhl

googler wrote: »

Only if the CDs to be copied are copyrighted product, despite the OP's caveats.

Even if they are copyrighted, it may be perfectly okay to copy. You just need permission from the copyright holders.