I used Laser for the first time about 3-4 months ago when I bought an external CD/DVD/Bluray RW. I had a handful of old CDs including audio CDs I wanted to rip before they decayed. Laser worked great. For Albums it was able to find online it filled in all the metadata and let me rip to flac easily. Very friendly UI. I also had a few audio CDs that were high-school chior albums not found on any CD databases. It was straightforward to manually add the Metadata when ripping the CDs.

I plan to keep using Laser as I pick up old CDs at Goodwills and record stores. I’d recommend Laser to others without any concerns.

I haven't ripped anything in a long long time, but the command line abcde was really nice. Once your config was to your liking, you just put in disc and type abcde, and done.

Cool. I've been using the excellent cyanrip , but always nice to have GUI options and some of the better ones for CD ripping were unmaintained last time I checked.

Why bother when you can just

abcde

Mac user, but hey, as long as it can rip to a raw, uncompressed file, I'm just gonna do my compression with fre:ac. It's on Mac and Windows, so maybe it's on Linux too? If not, I'm sure you know of an encoder you love (I mean ffmpeg can be used in the command line, don't Linux guys love the command line? I love using the terminal on my Mac. Using it to write this post. Kidding, but I do use homebrew.)

xACT doesn't work no more?

Dd and deal with it later.

I like Whipper or Fre:ac but I’ll give this a try.