cdr -- Create/Duplicate/Rip
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cdr is a stab at the perfect audio ripper for Linux. Its a simple program,
with a no-frills interface, and interfaces with the best-supported,
best-performing software components to do its work. 

cdr will rip tracks from an audio CD into WAV files, encode ripped tracks
into MP3 files, and tag the MP3 files with tags you can edit yourself.

Here's a list of features (may be incomplete): 

   o Optionally query CDDB server and retrieve track listing for the CD
   o Allows editing of any returned CDDB information
   o Enable or disable deletion of interim WAV files
   o Choice of bitrate for encoding MP3s
   o Specify one or more generic SCSI device or IDE device to rip from
   o Three different naming formats available for ripped tracks
   o Can create track listing files for ripped albums (.m3u files)
   o Can create id3 tags using CDDB info (artist/album/title/tracknum)
   o Optionally allows multiple tracks to be ripped an encoded in parallel


INSTALLATION
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See included file ``INSTALL''


USAGE
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The program is pretty easy to use. It will create a configuration file in your
home directory called .cdrrc. If you have not configured cdr, it won't let you
do anything until you do.

cdr comes with all of the tools you need to rip and encode audio. It does
support other programs, but if you wish to use those, you must compile and
configure those yourself.

Be sure to take a look at the web page for new versions and screenshots. :)
There should be new versions posted to Freshmeat.net

	http://mikehardy.net/cdr


MISC
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You do need quite a few things to use this frontend. And some need to be
setup correctly before running cdr. Here's a list of what you need in order
to use cdr:

(1) One or more supported CD reader device.

       This is basically any device that either cdparanoia can
       use. Support for most SCSI and IDE drives are available. Check the DOCs
       for cdparanoia to see if your drive is supported.

(2) Perl

       Since cdr is written in Perl, you need Perl to run it. Perl comes with
       most Linux distributions and is available for pretty much every UNIX
       platform out there. If you don't have Perl, I highly recommend installing
       it (you'll need it to run cdr anyway :):

          http://www.perl.com/

(3) cdialog, id3ed, cdparanoia, and lame

	These are all bundled though, and should work for you.


PROPS
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Thanks to David Cantrell, who originally wrote cdr and all who have sent
patches and feedback, and me, who's maintaining it now :-)


-Mike Hardy
mike@mikehardy.net