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**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