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<p class="MsoNormal">I, and I know a few of you, have long been looking for an equivalent tool under Linux to Windows’ Exact Audio Copy.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I just stumbled upon a new (to me) possible contender: Whipper.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Source at: <a href="https://github.com/whipper-team/whipper">
GitHub - whipper-team/whipper: Python CD-DA ripper preferring accuracy over speed</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Binaries appear to mostly be in your distro’s repos? Or so the github page reports, at least.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">It does use the new-ish libcdparanoia to do the ripping, under the hood – it seems that product has matured and more or less reached parity with EAC.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I have not tried this yet, so I can’t vouch for its quality relative to EAC, but it’s apparently popular enough that MusicBrainz’ Picard has specific support for its logfiles.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">For proprietary-Darwin fans, the equivalent there now appears to be
<a href="https://tmkk.undo.jp/xld/index_e.html">X Lossless Decoder: Lossless audio decoder for Mac OS X (undo.jp)</a>. YMMV.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">-Adam<o:p></o:p></p>
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