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extraspecialbitter

#! Junkie

From: Cochituate, MA

Registered: 2009-01-21

Posts: 343

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[SOLVED] Has Debian lost its "grip"?

grip had been my favorite CD ripping software.  I know there are better ones out there, but I've gotten used to it enough to configure it exactly the way I want.  I've suddenly noticed that even with the debian-multimedia repos enabled, grip is nowhere to be found.  Is this by design?  If so, is there a suitable alternative?  I've tried RipperX, but I don't like it nearly as much.

Last edited by extraspecialbitter (2012-07-25 18:15:24)

Neil

#! CrunchBanger

From: Paragould AR USA

Registered: 2010-05-01

Posts: 166

Re: [SOLVED] Has Debian lost its "grip"?

Yes, Grip is no longer supported by its developers, or by Debian, and has been removed from the repositorie.

In addition to RipperX, there are ABCDE, Asunder, Ruby Ripper and others that one could try.  Surely you can find something you like that will do the job.  Might even find something you like better!

rhowaldt

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Registered: 2011-03-09

Posts: 4,396

Re: [SOLVED] Has Debian lost its "grip"?

i really enjoy abcde for ripping. you need to adjust the config-file to your liking first, but once you set that up it is as easy as popping in a CD and typing 'abcde' in a terminal.

Awebb

The Singularity

Registered: 2009-07-23

Posts: 2,812

Re: [SOLVED] Has Debian lost its "grip"?

The grip devs now went all indie game commercial. Nice of them to kill a FOSS project. Really.

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Tunafish

#! Die Hard

From: the Netherlands

Registered: 2010-03-07

Posts: 1,201

Re: [SOLVED] Has Debian lost its "grip"?

Grip is still available from stalter-multimedia:
add this to /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://packages.crunchbang.org/statler-mm squeeze main non-free

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extraspecialbitter

#! Junkie

From: Cochituate, MA

Registered: 2009-01-21

Posts: 343

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Re: [SOLVED] Has Debian lost its "grip"?

@Tunafish - thanks for the reply.  I'm giving xripperx and abcde a test-drive, but it at least gives me the option to install grip if I don't care for the alternatives.

lowrider

#! Junkie

From: Germany

Registered: 2011-09-10

Posts: 453

Re: [SOLVED] Has Debian lost its "grip"?

Well, it is a sad thing for me seeing grip isn't developed/maintained anymore
I use it since the beginning days of my linux trail -Debian 1.3 Bo back in 1997 it was-, grabbed my hole cd collection to harddisk in 128 kb/s (harddrive space wasn't that cheap back then ) using the lame later gogo plugin. Never find a better solution... sad sad thing it is

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agalgo

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From: mexico city

Registered: 2012-07-24

Posts: 2

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Re: [SOLVED] Has Debian lost its "grip"?

Guys,

Thanks a lot for bringing grip back to me... I had a really bad time trying to install it from source - never could make it work. I'll try the *.deb package provided by the crunchbang repo and let you know how it went later on...

Saludos!

agalgo

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From: mexico city

Registered: 2012-07-24

Posts: 2

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Re: [SOLVED] Has Debian lost its "grip"?

And a few minutes later... It's working like a charm!

Thanks again... Especially to you Tunafish, for posting the link to the repo...

douglas

#! CrunchBanger

From: Dallas, Texas

Registered: 2011-01-09

Posts: 223

Re: [SOLVED] Has Debian lost its "grip"?

I love abcde

rabidjoe

#! Member

From: Under My Hat

Registered: 2010-09-24

Posts: 78

Re: [SOLVED] Has Debian lost its "grip"?

pacpl will always be my pacpal...

pacpl --rip all --to mp3 --bitrate 320 --nocddb --device=/dev/sr0 --outdir /home/whoareyou

what could be easier....