Rubyripper

Rubyripper is an open source, secure, cross-platform and completely free graphical software implemented in Ruby and designed from the offset to act as an Audio-CD ripper for Linux and Mac OS X operating systems.

Features at a glance

The application has been engineered in such a way that it will try to deliver a secure Audio-CD ripping process by ripping the same track multiple times and correcting various differences that appear. It supports converting Audio-CDs to MP3, FLAC or OGG file formats.

It makes use of various open source applications for rip, encode and normalize the audio tracks from your Audio-CDs, including cdparanoia, cdrdao, FLAC, LAME, mp3gain, vorbis-tools, vorbisgain, and wavegain.

Easy to use graphical user interface

The application’s graphical user interface is simple, basic and intuitive, that even a 7 year old can use it to rip Audio-CDs. In general it looks like any other Audio-CD ripping tool, except for the fact that it uses tabs to allow the user to navigate between its settings and the main interface.

Of course, this means that everything is under your nose, so you can immediately modify an option before attempting to start the ripping process. Using CDDB (The Compact Disc Database), the application will automatically fill the artist, genre, album, year and track names fields.

From the Codecs tab, you can choose an encoding method (FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, Wav and MP3), specify a custom command for the encoding process, as well as to optionally enable generation of a m3u playlist or threaded encoding for faster ripping.

It is no longer under active development

As of March 10, 2014, this project has been discontinued and it is no longer maintained. So, if you decide to use it, do not expect any updates from the developer. Because of this, it has been archived for historical references purposes only.

What is new in this release:

• fix a crash when error on end of disc
• repair for Ruby-1.9 Net::HTTP updates
• fix outdated assumptions for gtk binding version
• backport a fix for separating various artists

What is new in version 0.6.0:

• many ruby-1.9 fixes
• get advanced toc scanning with help of cdrdao
• support for hidden tracks before track 1
• optionally set how many seconds a hidden track at least must be
• optionally not rip sectors before track 1 (prevent crashes for some drives)
• option to either append / prepend pregaps
• option for pre-emphasis handling
• fix rips with discs that start with a data track once again
• all new options result in a correct cuesheet (like EAC)
• fix the --all CLI option and rename it to --defaults
• improved aborting a rip
• better show intention of "overwrite" dir by renaming it
• better detection of various artist discs
• cooldown the drive for two minutes after 30 minutes non-stop ripping
• better handling of incomplete rips of last track due to offsets
• added detection of free disk space
• force a unique output directory in the gtk2 gui
• fix some exotic lame tags
• poll for the drive for some seconds to detect a disc
• more easy visual sign when some erors were not recovered
• move to freedesktop.org standard directories to store files (auto migration)
• automatically filter out illegal FAT32 characters in filenames
• better implementation of encoding threads, fixes multiple encodings
• show the amount of seconds for each trial to rip
• new Italian translation
• update of many translations
• and many other small fixes

What is new in version 0.5.6:

• fix a problem with cdparanoia and last track on some drives
• implement "abort" button while ripping
• add Bulgarian translation
• support for multiple-disc albums
• some ruby-1.9 syntax fixes
• fix various artist field for other codec
• don't convert to ISO-8859-1 for lame if the character isn't supported
• add an option to replace spaces with underscores
• add an option to lowercase all filenames.
• remove the hardcoded --id3v2only tag

What is new in version 0.5.5:

• Set lower priority to encoding processes
• Fix image rips crash
• Some CLI enhancements
• Removed -p option of vorbis since it didn't work as intended.
• Add Swedish translation and update others
• Make the other codec setting more foolproof
• Fix problem with proxy without password

What is new in version 0.5.4:

• disable threaded encoding, because since the ruby-gtk2 0.17 release forking a process within a thread results in a freeze. Hopefully a more elegant solution will follow.
• add French translation
• add proxy support

What is new in version 0.5.3:

• fix detection of some devices
• update Hungarian / German translation
• fix permissions on install + other small config fixes
• add totaltracks tag
• add albumartist tag
• add support for lame 3.98: all genre tags now allowed
• mention the artist / album in the summary page
• add accelerator keys
• encoding errors are now always reported
• support weird characters in tags, while disabling in the filename
• small fixes here and there

Requirements:

• GTK+
• ruby-libglade2
• cd-discid
• cdparanoia
• Eject
• which
• FLAC
• Ogg Vorbis
• LAME