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RoxCD tries to be as liberal as possible with the ripping/encoding apps it uses, and avoids special cases at the expense of 'slicker' acting interfaces. It's is, in our opinion, better if a App can use the same code resonably well for 200 encoders then perfectly for 2. So most likely, we will never be able to support streamed-DnD saving of tracks, but otherwise it works entirely in line with the common ROX-Desktop application's ideals. It does it's job, attempts to do it well, and does only that.
You can rip either a individual track or a entire CD via the drop-down menu. Merely right-click upon the track list, and you should see both options available to you.
The follower are what RoxCD calls 'Common Ripper Commands.' They are words that, when in a ripper/encoder/filename passed to the ripper or encoder, are replaced with the correct values from the current CD.
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%artist% | Artist's name |
%album% | Album's name |
%track% | Track's number |
%track_name% | Track's name |
%genre% | Genre of the CD |
%year% | Year the CD was released |
%filename% | The filename, minus any .ogg, .flac, .mp* extentions. |
%cd_filename% | Filename passed to the CD ripper |
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Some common values for popular rippers/encoders are:
OGG Encode | oggenc -t "%track_name%" -l "%album%" -a "%artist%" -G "%genre%" -o "%filename%" "%cd_filename%" |
LAME | lame --ta "%artist%" --tl "%album%" --ty %year% --tn %track_number% --tg "%genre%" --tt "%track_name%" "%cd_filename%" "%filename%" |
CD Paranoia | cdparanoia -e %track_number% "%cd_filename%" |
CDDA2Wav | cdda2wav -DATAPI:#,#,# -A/dev/cdrom -H -x -t %track% "%cd_filename%" |
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Well, simple. New formats are born daily. Why wait for me to get around to making another ripper/encoder when one usually will be readily available? Thus, a quick 3 seconds to change some options would allow you to use the most modern encoding formats.
Plus, this is more portable, and Python sucks for doing ripping by itself. :P :)
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