How to rip an audio CD from the command line using cdparanoia - LinuxConfig.org

Nowadays we are surrounded by devices able to read digital audio, and there are many services such as Spotify which allow to stream content legally. However if you like to buy music on physical support (compact disc), you may want to extract the audio tracks so they can be used on your smartphone or favorite device, or just for backup purposes. There are man tools on Linux which can be used to accomplish such task, but in the vast majority of cases they are just frontend to cdparanoia. In this tutorial we will learn how to use this tool.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-rip-an-audio-cd-from-the-command-line-using-cdparanoia

I use the gui program “sound-juicer” (GNOME CD Ripper). Very simple easy to use program that can find and enter the cd/song tags for your library too.