• Registered: 2012-05-12

Topic: New musicbrainz-friendly ripper for Linux: beta testers wanted

I've written a CD ripper which I think might be interesting to other musicbrainz users.   Main features:
- uses musicbrainz search to retrieve metadata, rather than FreeDB/CDDB
- easy submission of un-recognised discs to musicbrainz
- tags tracks with musicbrainz track id etc, making it very simple to complete tagging in Picard (no search required)
- reliable ripping: does two rips & compares them at block level (like RubyRipper) to ensure the best rip possible
- currently rips to flac and mp3 formats
- currently running under Ubuntu (Linux)
- GUI interface

I plan to make this available as freeware and would like to recruit a small number of beta testers before I make it more widely available.
If you are interested, please reply here and let me know what Linux distro you run.

  • From: Trois-Rivières, Canada
  • Registered: 2010-09-18

Re: New musicbrainz-friendly ripper for Linux: beta testers wanted

I don't use linux but this seems like a cool software. Will it do secure ripping (Like Exact Audio Copy on Windows) ?

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  • Registered: 2012-05-12

Re: New musicbrainz-friendly ripper for Linux: beta testers wanted

Lotheric wrote:

Will it do secure ripping (Like Exact Audio Copy on Windows) ?

Lotheric - I'm not sure if it does it the same as EAC but yes it does do secure ripping - it rips twice (or more) until it gets two identical copies of each block in the file.  You can specify that you want 3 or more identical copies if you want.

At present it doesn't compare the checksum with a central database, like some rippers.

  • From: Bush country
  • Registered: 2011-12-10

Re: New musicbrainz-friendly ripper for Linux: beta testers wanted

Pretty nice. Can you make it available for Mac at some point? (I'm currently experiencing issues with my laser lens, so this can wait a while.)

  • Registered: 2012-12-07

Re: New musicbrainz-friendly ripper for Linux: beta testers wanted

I'd be interested in giving it a try.  It sounds similar to rubyripper which I currently use.  I run Fedora 17 and will be upgrading to 18 in January.