Kanora
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CD ripping

Kanora treats ripping as the start of a usable library. It helps you get a disc onto your drives with the right release data attached, without inventing a new file layout.

What This Means

CD imports include MusicBrainz lookup, artwork fetching, release selection, duplicate warnings, and multi-disc handling.

In the app

What it looks like today.

Captures of the current build. Status badges above still apply — a screenshot shows what runs, not what is finished.

The Mac album grid, sorted alphabetically with an A–Z index, each card showing artwork, year, genre and a lossless format badge.
macOSAlbums
A CD inserted on the Mac: format and quality pickers, the matched release with artwork, a metadata suggestion banner with Edit and Choose Release, and the track list with checkboxes.
macOSCD detected
A rip in progress on the Mac: three tracks completed, the fourth ripping, an overall progress bar with time remaining, and a Cancel button.
macOSRipping

What you can do

Put in a disc, pick the matching release, fix any fields that need attention, and start the rip only when the album looks right.

Kanora writes the result into your existing folders. It keeps the workflow focused on the album, not on cleaning up after the software.

Why it matters

A bad import creates work every time you browse, sync, or move the album later. Getting the release, artwork, and track order right at the start saves that work.

Duplicate warnings, release choice, and clean cancellation make the flow useful when a drive stalls or a lookup needs a human check.

Status

This is one of the most mature parts of Kanora today. Multi-disc albums, fallback lookup, artwork recovery, and optional MP3 companion files are already part of the pipeline.