icedax

icedax

{{{screenshot}}} Creates WAV files from audio CDs
Developer(s)	Joerg Jaspert, Eduard Bloch, Steve McIntyre
Release information
Initial release	{{{released}}}
Stable release	1.1.6 (22 January 2022)
Preview release	{{{preview_release}}}
Compatibility
Operating system	Windows, Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, Haiku
Additional information
Use	Digital Audio Extraction, transcoding
License	GPL
Website	[1]

icedax lets you digitally copy ("rip") audio tracks from a CD, avoiding the distortion that is introduced when recording via a sound card. Data can be dumped into raw (cdr), wav or sun format sound files. Options control the recording format (stereo/mono; 8/16 bits; sampling rate, etc).