Rubyripper
Introduction
What is Rubyripper? Rubyripper is simple, but quite sophisticated digital audio extraction tool written in Python programming language that can create secure rip's in Linux/OSX (very similiar to EAC). The source (same as executable) is published under the (GPL license).
- UPDATE: New version 0.1.1 was released on 12 February 2006.
- UPDATE: New version 0.1.0 was released on 5 November 2005.
Features
- a command-line program which makes use of cdparanoia.
- every track gets ripped twice and is compared with a 160-bit SHA1 checksum
- if the checksums differ, the track will be ripped twice again until the checksum matches
- CDDB-info is fetched via the pycddb module.
- It can rip to FLAC, MP3, and Vorbis.
- Lame and Vorbis can be configured, default for lame is: -V2 --vbr-new, default for vorbis is -q 6
- You can choose the ripping device, otherwise default is used.
- See rubyripper --help for more information
- The files will be saved as "working directory/extension/artist (year) album/tracknumber - trackname.extension
Rubyripper configuration
Make sure to have ruby-freedb, ruby-libglade2 and cdparanoia installed as a minimum. You can optionally choose for Lame, Vorbis or FLAC, depending on the codec you like to use.
Then download Rubyripper: http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubyripper/
Documentation of some of the ripping logic used can be found at: http://rubyforge.org/docman/view.php/1284/310/Rubyripper's%20ripping%20logic.pdf
Currently there isn't an official installer available. Usage from a terminal:
- cd <download_dir> (Go to the directory where you saved the downloaded archive)
- tar xfj <filename_download> (Unpack the archive)
- cd rubyripper-<version> (Move into the just unpacked directory)
- chmod +x rubyripper.rb (Make rubyripper.rb executable)
- ./rubyripper.rb (Launch executable)
If Rubyripper doesn't start make sure dependencies are ok.