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I have decided to use headless tools to rip my audio CDs, because that's easier to automate. I looked into options other than the nice and simple but graphical tool asunder, and found the Debian list for ripping software.

I tested out pacpl, which works well enough. However, as tends to happen in Debian, the tool points to cddb.org which is long gone. The open source folks use gnudb.org nowadays, but this is not reflected in the Devuan unstable package of gnudb. So you just have to adjust /etc/pacpl/pacpl.conf with this oneliner if you use my bgscripts package:

sudo python3 /usr/libexec/bgscripts/py/modconf.py -a -l '=' /etc/pacpl/pacpl.conf set CDDB_HOST gnudb.gnudb.org

If you don't use that, you need to set variable CDDB_HOST to gnudb.gnudb.org. Hopefully that was obvious.