CD Ripping with Linux

What is everyone's favorite way to rip audio CDs in Linux? This can either be a GUI based app or in the CLI.

 

For "secure" rips I use, see ripit http://www.suwald.com/ripit/news.php
It's a perl script (cdparanoia backend). Unlike every GUI frontend for cdparanoia I tried it does actually support all cdparanoia's options so you can set offset and so on. It can do useful things like encode to several codecs in the same run, embed album art etc. If your drive is supported (most are, run 'cdparanoia -A' to check) and you set the offset (if required) then cdparanoia gives perfect rips, which is to say the decoded pcm has identical checksums as the same CD ripped with EAC with accuraterip confirming accuracy.

For audio book CD rips where i don't care even a little bit about the odd crackle or having a log file then I use abcde (a shell script) with cdparanoia's correction options switched off so it just goes at the max speed of the drive and disc (I could equally use ripit with cdparanoia set for speed but it is not written to support multiple profiles so it's easier just to have one script for secure and one for fast).

Sometimes I use EAC in wine. If I get a really scratched CD I might try different drives, different operating systems and different extraction apps. In practice the difference between physical drives makes much more difference than anything else (in my experience).