Grim Ripper is a graphical audio CD ripper. It fetches CD metadata from online databases and compresses the tracks.
Supported codecs: WAV, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, Opus, Wavpack, Musepack, AAC, and Monkey's audio files.
Features:
- Uses CDDB to name and tag each track.
- Creates M3U playlists
- Can encode to multiple formats in one session
- Simultaneous rip and encode
- Does not require a specific desktop environment
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Observed history
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Release notes supplied by the developer. These dates are not Flathub package publication times.
3.1.219 Apr 2026
Hotfix: The application name had not been updated in the desktop file.
3.1.118 Apr 2026
Grim Ripper is on Flathub now! Some necessary changes emerged during review. For visible changes, the application name changed slightly and the icon got some well-deserved love.
As part of a bug fix, the default output directory for audio files changed to the user's music directory (xdg-music). This avoids the need for a very broad Flatpak sandbox exception. Additionally, the ogg and mp3 file formats work out of the box now. Other formats still require the respective encoder programs to be installed on the computer already.
3.1.01 Apr 2026
The icon is square-like again so it fits more nicely in the Gnome dash. Also more GTK 3 porting.
3.0.021 Apr 2023
Move project to Gitlab, port to GTK+3 and Meson build system.