Asunder (software)

Asunder is a free and open-source graphical (GTK 2) audio CD ripper program for Unix-like systems. It doesn't have dependencies to the GNOME libraries (GStreamer and dconf) or libraries of other desktop environments. It functions as a front-end for cdparanoia.

Its first version was released in January 2005. Asunder is free software released under the GNU General Public License version 2.

Features

 * Saves audio tracks as WAV, MP3, Vorbis, FLAC, Opus, WavPack, Musepack, AAC, or Monkey's Audio files
 * Uses CDDB protocol to name and tag each track (freedb.freac.org) is the changeable default source)
 * Creates M3U playlists
 * Encodes to multiple formats in one session
 * Simultaneously rips and encodes
 * Can encode to multiple formats in one session
 * Allows for each track to be tagged by a different artist
 * Does not require a specific desktop environment (just GTK)