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 lame or
bladeenc, it can then convert the WAV into a MP3
file.
Besiding a nice GUI interface, ripperX also supports CDDB queries to retrieve song and album information, progress meters, and pausing while ripping.
This program takes no command line arguments.
Because Vorbis/Ogg uses variable bit rates, there is not a direct correlation between the bitrate selected for encoding and the rate used by oggenc. Instead, the bitrates in ripperX are mapped to the quality modes (1-6) supported by oggenc. Bitrates 56, 64, 96 == mode 1, 112 and 128 == mode 2, 160 == mode 3 (the default), 192 == mode 4, 256 == mode 6, and 320 == mode 6.
The FLAC encoding currently does not accept any bitrate arguments to adjust
the compression/speed settings, so whatever bitrate you select in the config dialog
will be ignored for this type of encoding.
cdparanoia (1).
oggenc (1).
flac (1).
Documentation in /usr/share/doc/ripperx/
The Vorbis/Ogg hack currently has a few quirks that make it different from the working with the MP3 encoders. These will be fixed once Ogg supported is integrated into the upstream code. Namely:
When encoding multiple OGG tracks, the "tracks remaining" counter is a bit whacked. Pay no attention to this.
When encoding .ogg tracks, ripperX doesn't correctly check to see if the .ogg already exists, and therefore will encode the file again (needlessly). Furthermore, the second time around, you will get a file without a .ogg extension. The work around for now is not to do this! ;)
Everything that applies to the Ogg hack also applies to the FLAC support.
This manual page was written by tony mancill tmancill@debian.org for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).