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Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
0warn against
Jan 14, 2026first mention
Oct 2, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“For command line you won't go wrong with abcde”
“+1 for ripping with abcde”
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“I highly recommend anyone amassing a CD rip collection take a look at it, both are still packaged in present-day Ubuntu.”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
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I’d love to. I’m working off memory right now, but it’s nothing fancy. I’ve got abcde[0] set up to handle the digitizing, navidrome[1] is set up to serve the content from a home lab server/NAS over Subsonic[2]. Play:Sub[3] is an iOS application that works with Subsonic. Just an audio receiver at this point, the app lets me “just play something” which is quite nice. Can “play a random album” for example. Tailscale jus
“For command line you won't go wrong with abcde”
“+1 for ripping with abcde”
“I highly recommend anyone amassing a CD rip collection take a look at it, both are still packaged in present-day Ubuntu.”