CLUSTER AUDIO-CDS-DESKTOP · 14 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2011-03-12
CD ripping and tagging tools
This cluster comprises desktop apps and command-line utilities that rip audio CDs, convert audio formats, and enrich tracks with metadata and cover art from databases like MusicBrainz. The dated history spans 2011 to 2026 but is too thin to infer a shape—only single entries in most years, with two in 2026-04. Traction leaders are Laser, Suno-Local-backup, and Audex, each with 0 stars, indicating minimal activity signal.
Entry timeline
ENTRY TIMELINE
Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.
Members by activity
Activity signals, not revenue.
Build origin · 5 hand-coded · 9 unlabelled
Operator · 14 open source
Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 14 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.
- 01Laser0★2 moliveopen sourceDesktop application for ripping audio CDs to digital formats with automatic metadata retrieval and album cover art.
- 02Audex0★3 molivehand-codedopen sourceDesktop application that extracts audio from CDs and fetches metadata and cover art from online databases.
- 03Picard Barcode Scanner0★5 moliveopen sourceCompanion app that scans CD and LP barcodes to load matching releases into desktop music-tagging software over a local network.
- 04Asunder0★8 mostalelivehand-codedopen sourceDesktop application that rips audio CDs and encodes tracks into multiple audio file formats with automatic track tagging.
- 05perl-musicbrainz-discid0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceComputes a disc identifier from an audio CD and retrieves matching release metadata from a music metadata database.
- 06Flacon0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceDesktop application that splits a single audio file containing an album into separate tracks using cue sheet data and edits tags.
- 07cdrip0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceCD ripping utility that extracts audio tracks, encodes them as MP3, and tags them using MusicBrainz.
- 08Grim Ripper0★5 moliveopen sourceDesktop application that rips audio CDs into multiple formats with online metadata tagging, playlist creation, and simultaneous encoding.
- 09CD Files Play0★4 moliveopen sourceDesktop application that plays audio files ripped from CDs, matching track and cover art metadata via an online music database.
- 10abcde-musicbrainz-meta0★3 yrabandonedliveopen sourceDependency package that enables MusicBrainz metadata lookup support in the abcde CD ripper.
- 11Sound Juicer0★3 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceCD ripper that extracts audio tracks and converts them to digital files on a computer.
- 12image-id0★11 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceCommand-line utility that computes MusicBrainz disc IDs from CD images.
- 13fre:ac0★unknownliveopen sourceDesktop application that converts audio files between formats and rips music from CDs, with an integrated player, tag editor, and playlist support.
- 14fre:ac0★3 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceAudio converter and CD ripper supporting many audio formats with tag editing, playlist support, and fast conversion.
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