Asunder is a good CD ripper for Linux

[Brian Hall]

Just used it today. With error correction turned on, it is slower than dbPowerAmp, but worked fine for ripping a CD to flac and automatically added the metadata.

I still have Windows (windows 10) installed on one device, a Surface Pro 3, that I only used for ripping CDs. Now I can switch that one to Linux too. Good riddance to Windows.

 

[Joe Smith]

Thanks for the rec! Downloading now and I will give it a try. We went to Linux Mint last summer as we had older IBM ThinkCentre towers that were perfectly good but not compatible with Win 11. Haven't looked back, Mint 22 is pretty great.

 

[Brian Hall]

Thanks for the rec! Downloading now and I will give it a try. We went to Linux Mint last summer as we had older IBM ThinkCentre towers that were perfectly good but not compatible with Win 11. Haven't looked back, Mint 22 is pretty great.

I upgraded to the newest Mint, 22.3 today.

I'd say run the ripper without error correction unless the cd is damaged.

 

[somebodyelse]

Any idea what the error correction does? Change the paranoia level of cdparanoia, or compare binaries with some online source?

 

[EJ3]

Just used it today. With error correction turned on, it is slower than dbPowerAmp, but worked fine for ripping a CD to flac and automatically added the metadata.

I still have Windows (windows 10) installed on one device, a Surface Pro 3, that I only used for ripping CDs. Now I can switch that one to Linux too. Good riddance to Windows.

Exactly what I would like to do: get rid of Windows. But, I still would like to be able to play my discs (or somehow get them into a format that I could store them on a NAS (or thumbdrives) and be able to play them.

 

[mcochris]

I've been using Asunder for a couple months now, works great on my Framework 16 laptop. I always run it with error correction on, rip to flac. Came from Windows Exact Audio Copy. I miss EAC's ability to get cover art, but getting off Windows is worth it. I'm running Kubuntu 25 now.

 

[mcochris]

Exactly what I would like to do: get rid of Windows. But, I still would like to be able to play my discs (or somehow get them into a format that I could store them on a NAS (or thumbdrives) and be able to play them.

All my ripped files are on a FreeBSD NAS, and I can play them on my linux laptop no problem. Are you considering a switch to Linux?

 

[Brian Hall]

I've been using Asunder for a couple months now, works great on my Framework 16 laptop. I always run it with error correction on, rip to flac. Came from Windows Exact Audio Copy. I miss EAC's ability to get cover art, but getting off Windows is worth it. I'm running Kubuntu 25 now.

Asunder pulled the cover art and metadata for the CDs I ripped with the CDDB Lookup that is built in.

 

[EJ3]

I thank you folks for all the suggestions. Due to medical issues from a car accident (having more Dr. appt. than ever in my life [thus limiting my free time]), progress is and will continue to be slow. But having all these suggestions gives me directions to things that I did not know existed. That in & of itself, will save a lot of frustration
Again, thank you all!

 

[EJ3]

All my ripped files are on a FreeBSD NAS, and I can play them on my linux laptop no problem. Are you considering a switch to Linux?

Linux? Yes!

 

[Brian Hall]

Linux? Yes!

You can also run various music servers on a cheap mini pc running Linux. I have one I use as a Plex server that has all my ripped CDs on it. Around 600 of them. I can play them from the server on just about any device I have from that server.

 

[EJ3]

You can also run various music servers on a cheap mini pc running Linux. I have one I use as a Plex server that has all my ripped CDs on it. Around 600 of them. I can play them from the server on just about any device I have from that server.

Something to do with old laptops I have here. Two 16" 4.0 GHz speed one, each with USB 3.0HDMI, 1 TB SSD & internalCD/DVD ripper & Blue Ray players.
So, one of them could be essentially a NAS. The only thing that slows them down is a MAX memory of 16 GB.

 

[Brian Hall]

Something to do with old laptops I have here. Two 16" 4.0 GHz speed one, each with USB 3.0HDMI, 1 TB SSD & internalCD/DVD ripper & Blue Ray players.
So, one of them could be essentially a NAS. The only thing that slows them down is a MAX memory of 16 GB.

My mini pc Plex server has 16gb of ram with a 1tb nvme drive and a 4tb sata ssd drive (where the ripped CDs are stored). 16gb is more than enough ram to run Linux and a media server.

 

[mcochris]

Asunder pulled the cover art and metadata for the CDs I ripped with the CDDB Lookup that is built in.

I get the metadata, but no cover art. I have the latest version of Asunder, 3.0.1. How do you get the cover art?

 

[boswell]

you might consider Daphile a linux OS specifically for pc architecture for playing audio, it will run on "the smell of an oily rag" to use an outdated phrase for the minimum. I believe it will do all mentioned so far

 

[boswell]

old computer and usb cd drive and usb hard drive gives ripper, server and can stream via spotify etc ,,usb out to dac

 

[somebodyelse]

you might consider Daphile a linux OS specifically for pc architecture for playing audio, it will run on "the smell of an oily rag" to use an outdated phrase for the minimum. I believe it will do all mentioned so far

While the 32 bit version has i486 in the name, I think you actually need a 686 or later due to some of the binary perl packages supplied with LMS. That used to be a problem trying to run LMS on a Via C3 which isn't quite 686 class. So pretty much anything made this century with 512MB RAM or more should do the job. A used thin client for under £20 is more than enough.

 

[Brian Hall]

I get the metadata, but no cover art. I have the latest version of Asunder, 3.0.1. How do you get the cover art?

Sorry, it has been a while since I ripped a CD. I don't remember having to do anything extra, but I may have. Try asking Grok or Gemini about it. That's what I would have done.