NAME¶
ripperX — graphical (GTK) frontend for ripping and OGG/FLAC/MP3 encoding
CD tracks
SYNOPSIS¶
ripperX
DESCRIPTION¶
This manual page documents briefly the
ripperX command. It was written
for the
Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the program originally
did not have a manual page.
ripperX is an X-based program that uses
cdparanoia to convert
(a.k.a. "rip") CD audio tracks to WAV files, and then calls the
Vorbis/Ogg encoder
oggenc to convert the WAV to an OGG file. It can
also call
flac to perform loss-less compression on the WAV file,
resulting in a FLAC file. If you have an MP3 encoder installed such as
toolame,
lame or
bladeenc, it can convert the WAV into a
MP3 file instead.
Besides a nice GUI interface,
ripperX also supports CDDB queries to
retrieve song and album information, progress meters, and pausing while
ripping.
OPTIONS¶
This program takes no command line arguments. After starting the application,
select the
Config button and cycle through the tabs to learn what
options are configurable.
Because Vorbis/Ogg typically uses variable bit rates, there is not a direct
correlation between the bitrate selected for encoding and the rate used by
oggenc. The bitrates selected in the MP3 tab of the Configuration
dialog are passed to
oggenc with the
-b switch. Enabling or
disabling VBR when using Vorbis/Ogg has no effect on the encoding process.
The FLAC encoding currently does not accept any bitrate arguments, so any
bitrate you specify in the config dialog will be ignored for this type of
encoding.
SEE ALSO¶
cdparanoia (1).
oggenc (1).
flac (1).
toolame (1).
Documentation in /usr/share/doc/ripperx/
BUGS¶
Many, to be sure... Please report them as you find them!
AUTHOR¶
This manual page was written by tony mancill tmancill@debian.org for the
Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).