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 (and other audio format) encoders, letting you take a disc and transform it easily straight into MP3s. The Ogg Vorbis format is also supported. 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.

Grip 3.3.1

Price Free to download Size 1 MB License GNU General Public License Developer Mike Oliphant Website nostatic.org/grip/ System Requirements GNOME desktop POSIX thread support net connection CD Player Support Sites: Grip User's Guide, Decibels Linux Grip Tutorial, Mailing List Selected Reviews: Softpedia

Features include:

• Full-featured CD player with a small screen footprint in "condensed" mode
• Database lookup/submission to share track information over the net
• HTTP proxy support for those behind firewalls
• Loop, shuffle, and playlist modes
• Ripping of single, multiple, or partial tracks
• Encoding of ripped .wav files into MP3 files (as well support for OGG and FLAC)
• Simultaneous rip and encode
• Support for multiple encode processes on SMP machines
• Adding ID3v1/v2 tags to MP3 files
• Cooperating with DigitalDJ, my SQL-based MP3 jukebox

Last Updated Wednesday, March 30 2011 @ 04:19 PM EST