is used to create MPEG-1 Layer 3 (MP3) audio files from an Audio CD. It is a console based front-end (no fancy GUI here), written in perl, for these excellent programs:

dagrab (or cdparanoia or cdda2wav) for ripping the Audio CD tracks

lame (or OggVorbis) for encoding the MP3 files

CDDB_get (perl module) for CDDB retrieval

Gets the Audio CD Album/Artist/Tracks information from CDDB (using xmcd)

Rips the Audio CD Tracks (using cdparanoia)

Encodes the MP3s

id3 tags the MP3s

Creates an M3U file

Although  is primarily written for Linux it should run on any version of Unix.

I'm proud to announce that  is included in the official distribution of SUSE Linux.
 

Download Files

The latest version of  is here ripit.tar.gz

To download the previous version, (i.e. you have problems with v2.0) click here ripit-1.8.tar.gz

Here are the README and HISTORY included with the program

You will also require the following programs:

• dagrab v0.3.5+ - http://web.tiscalinet.it/marcellou/dagrab.html
• lame v3.88+ - http://lame.sourceforge.net/
• CDDB_get - Perl CPAN, see instructions in README
• perl v5 - will most probably already be installed

It's been a while since I have updated, I'd actually stopped development of it as it did what I wanted. Due to a number of requests for upgrades and to support new features I've spent some time to keep up to date and to support new technologies such as ID3v2 and OggVorbis. But the main reason was to get rid of the dependancy on XMCD.

What's new in v2.0:

• No longer uses XMCD
  
• Now uses perl CDDB_get for CDDB lookup
• Added support for DAGRAB
• Removed support for BLADEENC and GOGO
• Added support for OGGVORBIS
• Added support for ID3V2 tags
• Added genre override option
• Added more command line options

Created by Simon Quinn email