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[frodoontop]

UPDATE: new version 0.2 release at 4 august 2006. A lot of improvements.
UPDATE: New version 0.1.1 released at 12 february 2006. Hopefully no more gettext trouble at startup.
UPDATE: New rewritten in Ruby: version 0.1, renamed to Rubyripper is released at 29 januari 2006.
UPDATE: new version 0.1.2 is released at 10 november.
UPDATE: New version 0.1.1 is released at 6 november.
UPDATE: New version 0.1 is released at 5 november.

See http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubyripper/ for the changelog.

This info in this first post is quite dated. I suggest you go to the Hydrogenaudio wiki page for more updated information. I'll try to keep the info there up-to-date.

Hi all,

I was getting tired of emulating EAC on linux, so I decided to program a relative simple but secure procedure to rip my cd's. I've totally rewritten the original program in ruby and it now includes a Gtk2-based GUI.

So what is Rubyripper:

- an easy to use gui which uses of cdparanoia and cdda2wav.
- a smart way to make sure rips are done perfect. For details look at my site at the documentation section. There the main idea is worked out.
- support for lame, vorbis and flac
- playlist support
- fetches cddb info
- save settings which autoload on startup

Known problems:
Special character in tags are not supported at the moment. I guess It has something to do with unicode. The files are named correctly though.

How to install it?
Make sure to have ruby-freedb, ruby-libglade2, cdparanoia and cdda2wav installed as a minimum. You can optionally choose for lame, vorbis or flac, depending on the format you want to encode to.

Then download Rubyripper from my site.

Unpack it (tar xfj <filename>), make rubyripper.rb executable (chmod +x <filename>) and just run from inside the directory ./rubyripper.rb. If it doesn't work please make sure dependencies are ok.


The source (same as executable) is published under the GPL license. The rewrite is linux/bsd-only for now. For any Mac Os users who are interested: please respond to my question at page 4.

Let me hear if you find it usable or when any errors occur. I have already tested on a dozen cd's of mine, but there can always occur new problems. I'm also open to feature requests

This post has been edited by frodoontop: Aug 4 2006, 20:20

[VCSkier]

things seem to be working well finally. first of all, am i correct in assuming that using cdparanoia has no benefits over cdda2wav on drives that cache? also, for drives that do not cache, cdparanoia can be better at recovering secure rips on damaged cd's than cdda2wav?

secondly, i am not able to rip cd's that have a "data track" at the end either. the checkbox next to the data track is not checked, obviously, so i would think that it would be able to rip all of the audio tracks w/o any problems. but instead, rubyripper hangs on the first attempt of the last audio track.

regarless of this little problem, so far i love rubyripper. its a great tool! thanks.