Grip User's Guide

Mike Oliphant


            <grip@nostatic.org>
          

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Table of Contents

Introduction
Playing CDs with Grip
CD Player Controls
Track Mode Selector
Ripping CDs with Grip
Selecting Tracks To Rip
Ripping CDs
Increasing Ripping Performance
Using a SCSI drive
Configuring Grip
The "CD" config tab
The "Rip" config tab
The "Encode" config tab
The "ID3" config tab
The "DiscDB" config tab
The "Proxy" config tab
The "Misc" config tab
Configuration (%) switches
FAQ
Getting More Help
Reporting Bugs / Sumitting Patches
CDDB notes
License and Disclaimer
Acknowledgments

Introduction

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 (and other audio format) 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.