Back in the day, when I was ripping vinyl to MP3, I used the noise reduction feature in Audacity. I know a lot of people don’t like Audacity anymore, but it worked great for ripping vinyl for me back then.
Audacity is in the Archlinux extra repo.
Pudge
In case anyone wants an alternative, there is a package called Tenacity, based on Audacity (Forked from Audacity) and open source, the interface is exactly the same.
Thank you. I couldn’t remember the name of Audacity’s fork. I haven’t used Tenacity as I was done ripping before it’s time.
I also don’t remember why Audacity was demonized. Security?
Pudge
I don’t really remember either. From what I remember it was taken over by a company called muse, and they changed various things one being adding telemetry from Google Analytics and Yandex Metrika, and a CLA license agreement change giving Muse Group non-exclusive rights to re-license the code to make proprietary builds of Audacity. And there were changes to privacy policy.
There were multiple forks made but Tenacity was the most popular in the end. I was using Audacity on Windows and changed to Tenacity as recommendation by some people on Linux forums after I switched to Linux last year, likely someone on EOS forum so I just ended up installing that.
Just for grins and giggles, I installed tenacity on a Raspberry Pi 5 8 GB RAM on a Samsung USB SSD T7. KDE Plasma, wayland.
Tenacity runs as smooth as silk on the RPi 5. It looks exactly like Audacity from what I remember. It didn’t take long before I was remembering how it operates.
I was playing a song on Firefox & youtube, then clicked on pipewire for a recording source and it recorded what was streaming from Youtube.
@UncleSpellbinder Noise Reduction is included for reducing hiss, pops, etc. after recording from vinyl.
Pudge
I do have Tenacity installed. It’s really NICE! Been using it for a while.
I’ve got the same drive! I’d recommend whipper, I’ve been using it to convert my CDs to delicious flac files in anticipation of the delivery of my Tangara
Light weight, solid, does what it should. I really enjoy it.
I prefer a GUI for ripping. Audex has been great so far.
If you’re looking for Exact Audio Copy rip quality, Whipper, if not Rubyripper or Asunder.
I reconnected today my internal cd/dvd drive after I bought a bigger hard disk. I think I will convert all my cd’s to flac. I converted them all to mp3 many years ago. Now I have the time to do such fun 
I did want a gui at first, but I decided on whipper after spending way to much time and worry about the quality of the rips. After the initial config setup I just have to look up the command in LogSeq because I always get it backwards
extra/whipper 0.10.0-7
Python CD-DA ripper preferring accuracy over speed
I like speed but the accuracy is what I value most. Thanks for this suggestion!
@UncleSpellbinder
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Audex, while a GUI app, is hardly speedy. At several minutes per track, it can take a while to rip a CD. Particularly a long one. And as far as I can tell, and hear, Audex seems extremely accurate.
Thanks! But since I am mostly on GTK based DE (GNOME), audex will practically install KDE Plasma on top of it 
But sure, I have a KDE Plasma install too so I’ll have a go at it next time I’m booted into Plasma.
Anything without offset detection and AccurateRip support isn’t worth being called a cd ripper.
Examples of cd rippers that have offset detection and AccurateRip support?
Whipper. Didn’t check any GUI options, but asunder and audex definitely don’t support either.
Well, using Audex, and listening to the actual CD then the FLAC, my ears hear no difference. Plus, I’m listening through PC speakers. Pretty damn good Creative PC speakers. But PC external speakers nonetheless. If I was using a DAC to play the FLAC files through a high-end stereo system, I might worry about offset detection and AccurateRip support. But for my use, I’m good. But I will look further into that.
