Physical Media Ripping

How do you convert your LPs, CDs, cassettes, etc. to a digital medium? My family has a sizable collection of things I would like to back up. Currently, I use Exact Audio Copy to archive CDs and follow a guide that ensures they create a perfect .log file. However, I am looking for a FOSS alternative given that the EAC project is 1) proprietary and 2) no longer appears to be maintained. Apologies if this thread is better suited for /tech/.

honestly i need this thread too, i have never found a good method for ripping my lps and cassettes, might also be a soykaf turntable or cassette player too. ive never really had issues with ripping cds though, cause it is the most practiced and readily available with a quick search.

As far as CDs go, this may be just what you're looking for: https://github.com/thomasvs/morituri It does basically the same as EAC. The only downside as far as I'm aware is lack of log compatability for private trackers. For LPs and Cassettes, you'll need to hook up a preamp to your PC, and have a decent turntable / player. Audacity is fine for recording and is of course FOSS.

>>3355 I haven't done this in many years (>10) and the answer depends on how much of an audiophile you are and the approach you want to take, but when I last did this I converted CDs using K3b, ripperx, cdparanoia and KAudioCreator (which uses cdparanoia). >>3357 morituri also uses cdparanoia, and is recommended by several people but I have never used it. whipper (https://github.com/whipper-team/whipper) claims to be an actively maintained and enhanced fork of morituri and of course uses cdparanoia. Regarding LPs and Cassetes, the last time I did it was like >>3357 said, I used Audacity, with a decent record player. Some people have had better results using cdda2wav using -paranoia , than using cdparanoia directly but that all has to do with cdparanoia's disc caching algorithms not being updated. recently. Fre:ac (https://www.freac.org/) is of course another option.