Coming from morituri back in the days, the only choice for me is whipper. Anything but the perfect FLAC is unacceptable. 
Donāt forget to test & calibrate your drive. Some few drives arenāt compatible. My recommendation: Replace the drive, not the software!
Fre:ac is GUI app with offset and AccurateRip support.
Sorry to bring up this old thread 
But whipper is amazing. Just a few commands and you have the perfect rip.
Iāve checked the AccurateRip Database first, bought the same drive as @UncleSpellbinder
Works without any problems.
Wasnāt Clementine replaced by Strawberry? I thought soā¦ but what do I know. HEHE very little really hahaā¦ either way I love Clementine/Strawberry (favorite music player ever really). I was totally unaware it was capable of ripping CDās though. I got an external DVD/CD player or whatever from Dell with my new computer. I have not tested it yet, but I am going to do so today (later on) with some of my DVD/CDs. I am actually pretty excited about it. My dad got a little water on it when he was carrying it upstairs (he had the CD/DVD player and a water flossing thingy in the same hand) so I hope it still works. It was only a little waterā¦ so I hope it is not an issue?
Clementine (which is available in the AUR) can rip CDs. Strawberry which is a fork of it, canāt as it focuses more on hi-quality playback.
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm okay thankx for the info. Scratch that, I guess I will be downloading/installing Clementine and using that to test my external DVD/CD player later tonight. 
THANKX 4 THE INFO BRO ~ I was completely unaware
hoping/praying it still works
