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).

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