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Ubuntu packaging and sources for the legacy Grip CD ripper
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Grip

====



Grip is a cd-player and cd-ripper for the Gnome desktop.. It has the ripping

capabilities of cdparanoia builtin, but can also use external rippers (such

as cdda2wav). It also provides an automated frontend for MP3 encoders,

letting you take a disc and transform it easily straight into MP3s. Internet

disc lookups are supported for retrieving track information from disc

database servers. Grip works with DigitalDJ to provide a unified

"computerized" version of your music collection.



Requirements

============



To use Grip, you must have:



 o The Gnome desktop

 o POSIX thread support (http://pauillac.inria.fr/~xleroy/linuxthreads)

 o a net connection (if you want to use disc database lookup)

 o a CD player (surprise, surprise)



Grip requires that you have at least a basic version of the Gnome desktop

installed on your computer. In particular, make sure that you have libghttp

installed. If you can't find it, I have mirrored a copy here:



  http://www.nostatic.org/grip/libghttp-1.0.9.tar.gz



If you wish to have builtin cdparanoia support, or id3v2 support, you must

have the appropriate packages on your system. You can find them here:



 cdparanoia: http://xiph.org/paranoia/index.html

 id3v2: http://id3lib.sourceforge.net/



Grip is designed to work closely with DigitalDJ, my SQL-based mp3 jukebox

system (although it does not require it). DigitalDJ can be obtained from:



  http://www.nostatic.org/ddj



Installation

============



If you obtained Grip from the RPM distribution then they are already

installed. If you have the source distribution, you need to compile it.



To install Grip, simply go through the following steps:



 o after unpacking Grip, cd to the extracted directory

 o './configure'

 o 'make'

 o become root if you are installing in a non-user directory

 o 'make install'



For information on options to the configure process, run:



  ./configure --help



Grip adds the following options that can be specified to configure:



  --disable-shared-cdpar  -- This will force Grip to link statically, rather

                             than dynamically with cdparanoia



  --disable-cdpar         -- This disable linking with cdparanoia entirely



  --disable-shared-id3    -- This will force Grip to link statically, rather

                             than dynamically with id3lib



Note that if Gnome is installed in a non-standard place (such as /opt), you

may need to use the '--with-gnome' configure option for all libraries to be

found correctly.



Running Grip

============



Grip's usage is:



  grip [options]



  where the available options are:



    --config=CONFIG             Specify the configuration file to use

                                (defaults to .grip, relative to home dir)

    --device=DEVICE             Specify the cdrom device to use

    --scsi-device=DEVICE        Specify the generic scsi device to use

    --small                     Launch in "small" (cd-only) mode

    --local                     "Local" mode -- do not look up disc info on

                                the net

    --no-redirect               Do not do I/O redirection

    --verbose                   Run in verbose (debug) mode



Getting Mor Help

================



For more information, see the online documentation within Grip. It can also

be accessed locally in the source distribution. Load doc/C/grip/grip.html

into an html viewer.



If you need more help with Grip, your best resource is the Grip mailing

list. You will find it at:



  http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/grip-users



Be sure to check the mailing list archives for answers to any questions you

may have.



To report a bug with Grip, or to submit a patch. Please do so at the Grip

section on sourceforge.net:



  http://sourceforge.net/projects/grip



---

Mike Oliphant ([email protected])



http://www.nostatic.org/grip