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.

       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
       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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