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diff --git a/multimedia/ripit/README b/multimedia/ripit/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..903706601e --- /dev/null +++ b/multimedia/ripit/README @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +RipIT is used to create MPEG-1 Layer 3 (mp3) using Lame, or uses Flac (flac), +Ogg Vorbis (ogg), Faac (m4a), Musepack (mpc), mp4als (als), Wavpack (wv) or +ffmpeg to convert audio files (wav) extracted from an audio CD. +It is a console based front-end (no GUI here), written in Perl, for these +programs (which must be installed -- at least one out of each category): + +* dagrab, cdparanoia or cdda2wav (tosha and cdd are also supported) +for ripping the audio CD tracks +* Lame, OggVorbis, Flac or Faac, Musepack, mp4als, Wavpack or ffmpeg for +encoding the wav files to a compressed format + +Optionally, ripit can use: + +* CDDB_get 2.27 or higher, a Perl module for CDDB retrieval +* LWP::simple, a Perl module to access web pages and eventually Digest::MD5 +and Unicode::UCD depending your choice of options + +When using Musicbrainz DB one needs additionally: WebService::MusicBrainz +and the discid-tool or MusicBrainz::DiscID. + +The program will do the following without user intervention: + +* get the audio CD Album/Artist/Tracks information from MusicBrainz or freeCDDB +* rip the audio CD Tracks +* encode to Flac, mp3, Ogg-Vorbis, mpc, m4a or als +* id3 tag encoded songs +* create a playlist (m3u) file +* optionally generate a toc or inf files for DAO burning with, CD-text +* optionally prepare and send a CDDB submission and save it locally +* optionally extract hidden songs and split ghost songs +* optionally create md5sum files for all tracks +* run several encoder processes at the same time and same run |