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GTK+3 and GNOME application for ripping CD-Audio and encoding in lossy and lossless audio formats.
Copyright 2010 Giorgio Franceschi

This program, written in python, was created as an interface to the excellent ripper moriruri (http://thomas.apestaart.org/morituri/trac/), the only viable alternative to Exact Audio Copy for Linux. It can extract audio from CDs, convert audio files to different formats using gstreamer and using external stand-alone encoders like lame, oggenc or flac. I also added a simple player and the ability to manipulate audio files metada.

== Dependencies ==

* python >= 2.7 (no 3.x branch)
* python-gi >= 3.8
* GTK+ >= 3.0
* gstreamer >= 1.0 - multimedia framework and its python binding
* morituri >= 0.2.0 python CD-Audio ripper (only command line)
* CDDB, DiscID (python-cddb) >= 1.4 - python module to access a CDDB-server and get information about discs
* PIL (python-imaging) >= 1.1.7 - python imaging library
* mutagen (python-mutagen) >= 1.20 - python module to handle audio metadata (ID3 tags,...)

Note - All these packages are usually available in major distributions (Ubuntu, Linux Mint), except perhaps about to morituri and mutagen

Not essential, but strongly recommended:

* lame - the best mp3 encoder (command-line version)
* oggenc - vorbis encoder
* flac - flac lossless encoder
* other command-line encoders...

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This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the License or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program (see COPYING); if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA