IronGrip

IronGrip is a completely free, simple, low on resource, lightweight, open source and easy-to-use graphical software implemented in C around the GTK+ toolkit and designed to act as a handy utility for ripping and encoding Audio-CDs from the comfort of your desktop environment.

If you ever dreamed of having the perfect tool for ripping all of your Audio-CDs and encode them to popular digital audio formats, such as MP3, FLAC, OGG or WAV, IronGrip is the application you want to download right now for your GNU/Linux distribution.

Features at a glance

Key features include supports a wide variety of audio file formats for the encoding part, including the well known and ever popular MP3 file format, supports downloading of album covers from Amazon, supports MusicBrainz metadata (experimental), and offers an intuitive graphical user interface that allows you to effortlessly rip and encode music from CDs.

In addition, IronGrip uses CDDB (Compact Disc Database) to find the necessary information about your audio tracks and artists before ripping them, automatically finds CD/DVD-ROM drives on your computer, and can be easily compiled and installed from source on any distribution of Linux.

Getting started with IronGrip

After installation, you can easily open the application from the Audio section of your desktop environment’s main menu. If an Audio-CD is already inserted in your CD/DVD-ROM drive, it will be automatically recognized, so you can rip it with a click of a button.

From the Preferences dialog, users will be able to change the target folder for the encoded files, choose the default CD/DVD-ROM drive it multiple are available, enable generation of M3U playlist, enable the CDDB functionality, as well as to choose and encoding format and set the default quality for it.

Under the hood

Looking under the hood of IronGrip, we can notice that the software has been written entirely in the C programming language and that it uses the cross-platform GTK+ GUI toolkit for its versatile and modern graphical user interface.

For all its functionality to work as expected, you must have the GTK+ 2.12 or greater, Glib 2.16 or higher, Libcddb 1.3.2, Cdparanoia, LAME, FLAC, and Vorbis tools software packages installed on your GNU/Linux operating system prior to attempting to install IronGrip.

What is new in this release:

• This beta release includes bug fixes for GUI, new options in preferences, experimental support for MusicBrainz metadata and downloading covers from Amazon (early development stage).

What is new in version 0.8:

• Add support for Ogg Vorbis encoding.

Requirements:

• GTK+
• GLib2
• Libcddb
• Cdparanoia
• LAME
• FLAC
• Ogg Vorbis