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Re: [LUG] "Grip" command-line equivalent?



On Sunday 07 Mar 2004 15:09, Jonathan Melhuish wrote:
I used to backup my CDs using "Grip", which:

*  Looks up disc info on FreeDB
*  Inserts all disc information into a MySQL database
*  Rips the CDs to the hard disk in WAV format (using cdparanoia),
setting the file names according to disc info
*  Encodes them into Ogg files (using oggencode), naming accordingly and
adding metadata

I then used a little script I had written to turn all of the WAV files
into FLAC files (which magically compresses them to about half their
original size without losing any data).

Life was good.  I encoded about half my CD collection.  But then I made
the brash decision to turn my desktop PC into a headless network server,
so that I can leave it in the hallway and download and serve files
24/7.  I haven't really found many drawbacks to this approach - apart
from not being able to use Grip any longer :-(

Yes, I know I could run an X server on it and access it over the
network, but it seems a rather overblown solution to a program that
really only ties together several command-line programs anyway.

Does anybody know of a command-line tool that provides similar
functionality?  Preferably one that can run in "batch mode" in the
background?

Cheers,

Jon


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Jon
the one you seek could possiblly be ripenc.
Get it from http://home.kc.rr.com/ripenc/
HTH
Matt


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