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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