If you don't mind using KDE softwares, after having the same issue some weeks ago since kaudiocreator was remove with the transition to KDE3, I have adopted for debian, with the blessings of the original maintainer, the buntu package for audex, which is an audio CD grabber for KDE4. I kind of like it. It is currently sitting in NEW, but I hope it will be accepted sonner rather than later

http://debian-multimedia.org/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/package/rubyripper.php

I use abcde. Not GUI, but has all the features you could want.

...is what I switched to.

I'd definitely recommend K3B which is really the best all-in-one option for CD/DVD ripping and burning. It supports ripping to MP3, Ogg Vorbis and FLAC and it is already available in any flavour of Debian

I saw in the removal bug that mp3mesa (http://sourceforge.net/projects/mp3mesa/) is a fork of grip based on the debian patches. Perhaps that's the logical new upstream.

I am working on a pythonic one:

http://pypi.python.org/pypi?%3Aaction=search&term=pyrinox&submit=search

The points I am trying to address: 1. Excessive interaction - the existing rippers often ask too many questions, like 1 question per track (Do you wish to edit this track title?). pyrinox does what I want to happen: load the whole cddb entry into sensible-editor and let me do all the changes in one editor session.

1. Encodings - pretty much every ripper I have tried messes up the encodings wrt cddb info. Little wonder that most people learn to transliterate to ascii when creating new entries.

2. Safe ripping - all rippers, including the graphical ones, rip one track at a time. This tortures the drive and is also unnecessarily slow. Instead, either cdparanoia -B or icedax should be used, and if necessary split the single output file afterwards.

Note: 3. is not done yet; currently you're expected to run cdparanoia -B manually first, then pyrinox does the rest.

I too have been using abcde since KAudiocreator went the way of the dodo.

I'll have to take a look at audex some time.

There is no replacement for Grip. Please request that the package will be added back to Debian.

Sound juicer is what I use. It seems to have all the features of grip.

Why not keep using grip? What is the problem in using a package that is no longer "available"? It's only a ripper and not a critical software. For example, I still use XMMS (after trying other players, I still prefer it).

I'll second the recommendation for sound-juicer.

abcde is the most configurable ripper I've ever used. I'll never use another GUI ripper.

Since I started using abcde, I never looked back. Just customize your .abcde.conf file. Later, put a cd, type abcde,enter and off you go! Simpler and easier than all the GUI app!

Why'd they remove it? I've been using it for 6 years or more and that's a bit annoying.

Yeah, it sucks that grip is no longer in Debian. People who recommend asunder as a replacement don't know what they are talking about.

I just installed grip from source...

was disappointed to find that grip is no longer in debian. going to install from source, it's worth it, probably best cd ripper i've used (been ripping CDs for over a dozen years, fwiw).