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:
- The Gnome desktop
- POSIX thread support (http://pauillac.inria.fr/~xleroy/linuxthreads)
- a net connection (if you want to use disc database lookup)
- 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:
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:
- after unpacking Grip, cd to the extracted directory
- './configure'
- 'make'
- become root if you are installing in a non-user directory
- '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
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Mike Oliphant (oliphant@gtk.org)