icedax

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icedax
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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:

Supported languages

  • English