Goobox

Goobox is an open source project that provides users with a straightforward way to rip Audio-CD discs and encode the tracks to popular digital audio formats. It allows acts as an Audio-CD player application.

At first it looks like a simple Audio-CD player application, but it can also be used to rip tracks from a given CD media and encode them to various digital audio file formats, including OGG, FLAC and WAV.

Designed for GNOME

As mentioned, the application has been specifically designed for the GNOME desktop environment, with which it integrates very well, allowing users to quickly change the play mode (play all, repeat and shuffle), as well as to access its preferences directly from the panel.

The application is distributed as part of the GNOME project. It can be downloaded as a source archive, which means that it can also be used as a standalone application on other open source desktop environments. Users can install it from the default software channels of their Linux OS.

Features at a glance

From the preferences dialog, users can choose a CD/DVD-ROM device (if more than one are available), enable automatic playback of newly inserted Audio-CDs, enable creation of playlists, select the destination folder for ripped tracks, as well as the preferred audio encoder.

In addition, users can set the compression level or quality for each of the supported audio encoders. More specifically, they can choose between a smaller or higher quality for the OGG Vorbis open source lossless audio codec, and a faster or higher compression level for FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec).

The Audio-CD playback functionality of the application is pretty basic, providing users with the ability to play previous or next tracks, as well as a Play button that also acts as a Pause and Stop one.

Bottom line

All in all, Goobox is a very nice, stable and responsive Audio-CD player and ripper application for the GNOME desktop environment. Unfortunately, it doesn’t provides support for the MP3 audio file format.

What is new in this release:

• Bugs fixed:
• Application name not translated in about dialog
• Fixed make distcheck
• New or updated application translations:
• Polish (Piotr Drag)
• Portugues (Pedro Albuquerque)
• Lietuviu (Aurimas Cernius)
• Turkce (Gokhan Gurbetoglu)
• suomi (Jiri Gronroos)
• New or updated manual translations:
• Swedish (Anders Jonsson)

What is new in version 3.3.3:

• Bugs fixed:
• Allow to start with no drive.
• Update the window content after changing the drive in the preferences.
• Fixed window auto resize.
• New or updated application translations:
• Basque
• Deutsch
• Hungarian
• Indonesia
• suomi

What is new in version 3.3.2:

• Bugs fixed:
• Updated obsolete info in license text. (Andika Triwidadan) (#721455)
• Properties: Set button arrow icons according to locale's text direction (Yosef Or Boczko) (#722513)
• notification: Set arrow icons according to locale's text direction (Yosef Or Boczko) (#722176)
• window: Set button arrow icons according to locale's text direction (Yosef Or Boczko) (#722174)
• Require gtk+ 3.10 or higher.
• New or updated application translations
• New or updated manual translations

What is new in version 3.3.1:

• New features and user visible changes:
• Added support for writing MP3 files.
• Preferences: use a single page to show all the preferences.
• Show a message bar while fetching the disc information.
• Set button arrow icons according to locale's text direction. (Yosef Or Boczko)
• Added AppData description.
• New or updated application translations:
• Brazilian Portuguese (Enrico Nicoletto)
• Czech (Marek AŒernockA½)
• EspaA±ol (Daniel Mustieles)
• Greek (Dimitris Spingos)
• Indonesia (Andika Triwidada)
• Latvian (RA"dolfs Mazurs)
• Polish (Piotr DrA...g)
• suomi (Jiri GrA¶nroos)
• New or updated manual translations:
• German (Mario BlA¤ttermann)

What is new in version 3.2.1:

• Bugs fixed:
• Correctly show an error dialog if some gstreamer plugin is missing.
• Faster metadata download using read_sparse (#697966)
• Use the 'popup' attribute for the GtkMenuButton.
• New or updated application translations:
• Hungarian (BalAzs Asr)

What is new in version 3.2.0:

• New or updated manual translations:
• French (Julien Hardelin)

What is new in version 3.1.2:

• New features and user visible changes:
• Use a cover size of 100x100
• Bugs fixed:
• Fixed cover image fetching.
• Check for ice and sm pkg-config in configure. (#670941)
• Internal code changes:
• Ported to libmusicbrainz5.
• Ported to GStreamer 1.0
• New or updated application translations

What is new in version 3.1.1:

• New features and user visible changes:
• Implemented a GNOME 3 like interface.
• Added an application menu.
• Fixed the window size with big playlists.
• Bugs fixed:
• Fixed skipping to a specific position.
• Internal code changes:
• Ported to libmusicbrainz 4.
• Use libcoverart (if available) to get the CD cover.
• Use GResource to store ui files.
• Ported to the new documentation infrastructure.
• Removed markup from translatable messages.
• Removed use of deprecated functions.
• New or updated application translations:
• Czech (Marek AŒernockA½)
• EspaA±ol; Castellano (Daniel Mustieles)
• French (Bruno Brouard)
• Galician (Fran Dieguez)
• Indonesia (Andika Triwidada)
• Polish (Piotr DrA...g)
• Romanian (Daniel ȘerbAƒnescu)
• Slovenian (Matej UrbanAiA)
• Swedish (Daniel Nylander)
• New or updated manual translations:
• EspaA±ol (Daniel Mustieles)
• FranA§ais (Julien hardelin)

What is new in version 3.0.1:

• Bugs fixed:
• Fixed compilation linking explicitly to the math library.
• New or updated application translations:
• French (Claude Paroz)
• Japanese (Jiro Matsuzawa)
• New or updated manual translations:
• Czech (Marek Cernocky')
• French (Julien Hardelin)
• German (Mario Blattermann)
• Slovenian (Andrej Znidarsic)

What is new in version 3.0.0:

• Internal code changes:
• Removed use of deprecated code.
• New or updated manual translations:
• EspaA±ol (Daniel Mustieles)

What is new in version 2.90.1:

• New features and user visible changes:
• Ported to GTK+ 3.0, GSettings, GDBus, GtkApplication
• Ported to libmusicbrainz 3
• Added support for libnotify 0.7
• Use symbolic icons
• Preferer the dark theme
• Added a high definition icon
• Don't use the status icon with GNOME Shell
• Bugs fixed:
• Fixed CD cover search
• New or updated application translations:
• Basque (IA±aki LarraA±aga Murgoitio)
• Brazilian Portuguese (Mateus Zenaide)
• Chinese (simplified) (du baodao)
• Danish (Joe Hansen)
• EspaA±ol (Daniel Mustieles)
• Hungarian (Gabor Kelemen)
• Italian (Andrea Zagli)
• New or updated manual translations:
• EspaA±ol (Daniel Mustieles)

What is new in version 2.1.2:

• Bugs fixed:
• Flac quality level 9 does not work (#624188)
• Make sure the cache directory exists before saving the file (#623607)
• Save pixbufs.h in the build directory (#604437)
• Fixed error when a gstreamer plugin is not available.
• New or updated application translations:
• Basque (Inaki Larranaga Murgoitio)
• Brazilian Portuguese (Djavan Fagundes)
• Czech (Adrian Gunis)
• Danish (Joe Hansen)
• Espanol (Jorge Gonzalez)
• French (Claude Paroz)
• German (Mario Blattermann)
• INDONESIA (Andika Triwidada)
• Japanese (Takeshi AIHANA)
• Slovenian (Andrej Znidarsic)
• New or updated manual translations:
• Czech (Ondrej Pohl)
• Espanol (Jorge Gonzalez)
• French (Julien Hardelin)
• German (Christian Kirbach)

Requirements:

• gtk+
• libgnome
• libgnomeui
• libbonobo
• gnome-vfs
• libglade
• GStreamer
• GNOME Media