RIPPERX(1)RIPPERX(1)NAMEripperX — graphical (GTK) frontend for ripping and OGG/FLAC/MP3 encod‐
ing CD tracks
SYNOPSISripperXDESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the ripperX command.
This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution
because the original program does not have a manual page.
ripperX is an X-based program that uses cdparanoia to convert (i.e.
"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.
Alternately, if you have an MP3 encoder installed such as toolame
lame or bladeenc, it can then convert the WAV into a MP3 file.
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 Con‐
figuration 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).
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