For as long as I can remember, Grip has been my choice for ripping audio CDs and encoding them as either Ogg Vorbis, flac or MP3. However, today (2011-09-06), I discovered taht grip was no longer available in Debian (my other machines still has it installed since it's a couple of years since I installed their OS afresh). Hence, I had to look for something else and ripit caught my eye.
After a bit of reading in its manual pages, I got it do do what I want: lower case file names, underscores instead of spaces, output in my desired folder where the album is a sub directory of the artist directory, easy ripping and encoding using the Ogg Vorbis codec.
I'll probably do some more experimenting with it, but this line got me what I wanted:
$ ripit -l \
-u \
-g Folk \
-y 2011 \
-o ~/music/ \
--dirtemplate '"$artist/$album"'
As you might have guessed, the-g and
-y options are only necessary when those music meta
data cannot be fetched from CDDB, hence, you can normally omit
those.
