Asunder (software)

Asunder is a free and open-source graphical (GTK 2)^[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.^[3] It functions as a front-end for cdparanoia.^[2]

Asunder

Asunder 2.9.5 (2019-10) (running on GNOME with default GTK theme)
Original author(s)	Andrew Smith
Stable release	3.0.1[1]  / 26 July 2023; 20 months ago (26 July 2023)
Repository	littlesvr.ca/prog/asunder
Written in	C (GTK2)[2]
Operating system	Linux, BSDs
Platform	GTK
Type	CD ripper
License	GNU GPL v2
Website	littlesvr.ca/asunder

Its first version was released in January 2005.^[4] Asunder is free software released under the GNU General Public License version 2.^[5]

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)

See also

• Linux portal
• Free and open-source software portal

• Sound Juicer – The official CD ripper of GNOME
• Other CD rippers for Linux