On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 09:38:45PM -0500, John Thompson wrote:
I just installed "grip" (3.2.0) on my FC1 system. I just tried ripping some tracks from a CD, and grip seemed very happy and busy all the while, finished without any errors -- *BUT* -- where the devil does it put the tracks? I've searched my whole system and can't see that it actually wrote anything to the disk after all the work it did. Nor can I see any configuration option to tell grip where you want it to write its output.
Any clues welcome...
In grip click on Config --> Rip
You will see a line "Rip file format" that looks something like /b/mp3/%A/%d/%n.wav which places all the files in /b/mp3
in directories by %A (artist) etc. Yours will be different.
AND In grip click on Config --> Encode
You will see a line "Encode file format", that contains a line sort of like: /b/mp3/%A/%d/%n.ogg I believe that the default would be $HOME/ogg for when oggenc is used to encode files. Yours will be different.
These and other configuration values are saved in a text file in your home directory ".grip". See: $HOME/.grip $ grep fileformat .grip ripfileformat /b/mp3/%A/%d/%n.wav mp3fileformat /b/mp3/%A/%d/%n.ogg m3ufileformat ~/ogg/%A-%d.m3u
Remember that grip often runs with two passes. First a rip with a tool, commonly cdparanoia, then it optionally can transform that .wav file to another more compact format. The default plugin encoder is oggenc for ogg encoding. It is possible to find mp3 encoders on the net and other encoders too. Each encoder was developed for a set of reasons.
Sadly mp3 technology is not "free" so none is included in FCn. Ogg is a good encoder. If your player does not support it, request an update from the vendor or purchase a different one.
I am speculating, but, if your player came with encoder and ripping software for mp3 I believe that you have a license to run equivalent mp3 software on equivalent/ compatible hardware. Even if you have to find, download and compile it. But I am not an attourney... Do look at the fine print on the eula including patent numbers hidden here and there.
Me I use ogg.
Future MP3 codecs are going to include DRM as well. One article that I read was that it will prevent sharing between players but I find that hard to believe.
-- Robin Laing
