icedax

icedax

{{{screenshot}}} Creates WAV files from audio CDs
Developer(s)	Joerg Jaspert, Eduard Bloch, Steve McIntyre
Release information
Initial release	{{{released}}}
Stable release	1.1.11
Preview release	{{{preview_release}}}
Compatibility
Operating system	Debian Linux
Additional information
Use	Digital Audio Extraction
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).

It is a Debian spinoff of the cdda2wav program, forked because of a change in the cdrtools license to CDDL, incompatible with the GPL.

Features

• It can echo the sound to the soundcard as it rips, optionally changing the pitch of the echoed sound (!)
• Optional cdparanoia mode
• Reads CD-Text and CD-Extra info and writes .cddb and .cdindex files suitable for submission to FreeDB/GnuDB and MusicBrainz.

Supported formats

Only uncompressed formats:

• WAV
• AU (Sun PCM)
• CDR (raw)

Supported languages

• English