Oh my god, how could I not have seen that. Now the icon makes sense too.
I had this kind of revelation like 2days ago when I woke up to go to the toilet, drink some water and sleep again. I don't even know exactly why this thought came to me, it was a big discovery. Wanted to make a showerthought or til post, but never made. What a cool fun fact.
(Also it's even more amazing the fact that someone made a post about cd rippers here (on an already obscure platform) and both you and I read this post. Wow.)
Edit: I recently found K3B as I'm in the process of moving to NixOS from win10. Seems like a good program.
Didn't Nero have this on-the-fly (as if flies could burn anything) copying or am I confusing DVD and audio here?
Yes, I remember this. But if the dvd wasn't closed properly it would have read issues on other computers.
KAudio....something. It was a KDE tool that could rip and encode in parallel.
Every time I think back I picture Winamp. And sure enough I looked it up and Winamp could rip tracks and the UI is exactly what I remember
So: Winamp
i remember acidrip. i remember it was a gtk program, written in some interpreted language: perl or python.
Audiograbber for a while, then used Foobar2000 since I always had it open anyway, and then finally EAC because its the best and I am still using it.
I don't know about still maintained, but it's one of those pieces of software that did one task, did it well, and the one part you might want to update (the encoder) was a plugin. As such, even though it's not seen any significant update since 2004, it's really the only CD ripper I've ever used. All the way back to some old Pentium machine where ripping and encoding a CD to MP3 took longer than it would to play it. Though the times I've needed it in the past few years has dropped off considerably, and if I had to rip a CD today I'd actually have to boot up an old machine that still has an optical drive.
