Asunder

Asunder is an open source project that provides Linux users with a graphical application for ripping and encode Audio-CDs, transforming them into digital audio formats. The software is multi-threaded, thus it can rip and encode Audio-CDs simultaneously. Also, it’s DE-independent, meaning that it will work on any desktop environment as long as the GTK+ toolkit is installed.

Features at a glance

Thanks to the CDDB functionality, the application will automatically tag and name each track that is ripped from a certain Audio-CD disc. In addition, the application has been engineered in such a way that it will allow tracks from different artists.

Another interesting feature is the ability to encode to multiple audio formats in a single session. It can eject the Audio-CD when the ripping process is finished, allows users to choose a destination folder for the encoded files, modify the filename formats, change CDDB servers, and configure proxy settings.

Additionally, you can change different aspects of the supported encoders, such as bitrate, quality, or compression level. It will not prompt users with stupid error messages that an Audio-CD is not inserted when opening the application, like the ripperX application does.

Supports a wide range of audio file formats

It supports numerous audio formats, including MP3, OGG, WAV, FLAC, Opus, AAC, Wavpack, Monkey's audio, and Musepack. Support for creating M3U playlists and access to the CDDB (Compact Disc Database) database are also included.

Getting started with Asunder

In order to use the application in your Linux distribution, you will need to install some packages, such as libcddb 0.9.5 or greater, cdparanoia, LAME, Vorbis-Tools, FLAC, Opus, WavPack, mpcenc, neroAacEnc, and mac.

Being written in GTK+, the program features a beautiful graphical user interface (GUI) that integrates well into the GNOME desktop environment and follows its Human Interface Guidelines(HIG), offering one of the best Audio-CDs ripping/encoding experiences found on a Linux-based operating system.

What is new in this release:

• This version adds Esperanto and Bosnian translations, updates the Slovak, Italian, Portuguese, and Japanese translations, writes only ID3v2 tags (no more ID3v1 ones), supports XDG_CONFIG_HOME, and supports using Genere in filenames.

What is new in version 2.5:

• This version adds Esperanto and Bosnian translations, updates the Slovak, Italian, Portuguese, and Japanese translations, writes only ID3v2 tags (no more ID3v1 ones), supports XDG_CONFIG_HOME, and supports using Genere in filenames.

What is new in version 2.1:

• Basque and Urdu translations were added.
• A crash at startup that happened on some systems was fixed.
• A bug where the selected destination folder was lost when the prefs window is open was fixed.
• Some tooltips were fixed.
• System umask is now obeyed when creating directories.
• The year for file/directory names and tags is now editable.
• -Y and -Z options are no longer passed to cdparanoia, for better quality rips.

What is new in version 2.0:

• Added Croatian translation.
• Updated Spanish, Hungarian, Portuguese, and Portuguese (Brasil) translations.
• Asunder now compiles on kFreeBSD.
• Fixed bug where AAC files were always encoded at lowest quality despite UI selection.

What is new in version 1.9.2:

• Added Danish translation
• Updated Portuguese (Brasil) translation
• Try to minimize the risk of Asunder freezing during rip/encode
• Will now show progress as (1/1) instead of (0/1)
• Allow to edit the genre
• Do not allow invalid Windows filesystem characters in filenames
• Store the year in OGG metadata also

What is new in version 1.9.1:

• Added Turkish translation, support for year in filename format strings, and made a small usability fix.

What is new in version 1.9:

• This release adds Arabic, Slovenian, Latvian, and Slovak translations.
• It adds Musepack support, AAC support with the Nero encoder, and Monkey's Audio support.
• The CDDB server and port are user-configurable.
• There are some minor usability fixes.

What is new in version 1.6.2:

• The French and Norwegian (Bokmal) translations were updated.

What is new in version 1.6.1:

• This release adds a Portuguese translation, updates the Italian translation, and fixes a bug that would cause a crash on a repeated CDDB lookup.

Requirements:

• GTK+
• Libcddb
• Cdparanoia
• LAME
• Ogg Vorbis
• FLAC
• Opus
• WavPack
• mpcenc
• neroAacEnc
• mac