# Ripping on Linux? **URL:** \ **Category:** General chatter\ **Tags:** ripping\ **Created:** [January 31, 2020, 7:10pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/ripping-on-linux/461504 "2020-01-31T19:10:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![Deleted\_Editor\_2057975](https://community.metabrainz.org/user_avatar/community.metabrainz.org/deleted_editor_2057975/32/20836_2.png) [@Deleted\_Editor\_2057975](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/Deleted_Editor_2057975)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2020, 7:10pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/ripping-on-linux/461504/1 "2020-01-31T19:10:18Z")
Currently I’m ripping my CD’s with _Exact Audio Copy (EAC)_, running under Windows 10. I’m pissed off by Win10 (and MS at all) [Yesterday’s update took around 2 hour, nearly 10 restarts (fine, on a dual-boot system with Windows not the primary system), problem with to less space (even if more than 6 GB free disc space). I want to get rid of MS!] EAC itself seems not very alive. The last update is older than 3 years, the website looks unrepentant (e.g. forum not available). Even if EAC did the main job well, I’m not happy at all. I’ve chosen EAC (and Windows) because it is/was kind of best-free qualitative ripping software. EAC is also the only reason for also having a Windows partition on my HTPC, the only PC with an optical drive. I guess it’s possible to run EAC also und Wine, but as EAC is not very recent and I will not go on with it in future. I need an alternative way of doing the audio extraction and it should run on Linux. It should also be possible to do everything in the shell because I just want to do it remote by SSH connection. Actually I don’t need a GUI for it. It should work accurately (AccurateRip) and have a feasible error correction. The output will be FLAC always. It should be open source (with providing a deb-Package). On Linux _cdparanoia_ is the main component of many other CD ripper but Paranoia III is very old (from 2008), and so I’m not sure if this is the right horse. I don’t see anything going on for Paranoia IV. How to go on with ripping on Linux? --- _[View the full topic](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/ripping-on-linux/461504)._