Introduction

Autorip and autotag are a pair of shell-scripts which automate the ripping and encoding of CDs to MP3. They were written with the idea of disconnected operation in mind:

CDs can be ripped to WAV files at anytime,
CDs are identified from FreeDB the next time the machine is connected to the net,
WAV files are tagged and encoded to MP3 at a later time.

Requirements

Most of the work is done by programs called by these scripts; if they are not already installed on the host system, they must be downloaded and installed separately:

waitclose: http://www.technocage.com/~caskey/waitclose
cdparanoia: http://www.xiph.org/paranoia/
cd-discid: rcw@debian.org
lame: http://www.sulaco.org/mp3/ (version 3.89 beta or later)

Credits

Autorip was written by Stephen Crane and extensively modified by Hunter Kelly.

License

This software is distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL. See the file LICENSE in the distribution or the GNU website for terms and conditions.

Download and Installation

Download the latest tar-file
Unpack it anywhere and move autorip.sh and autotag.sh to /usr/local/bin
Edit riprc for your site and move it to /usr/local/etc
Create the directories specified in the file riprc; these can be anything, but a good place is /var/mp3/Untagged, /var/mp3/Unknown, /var/mp3/tmp

Last modified: Tue Nov 20 19:31:51 GMT 2001 jscrane@maths.tcd.ie