Introduction

What is Pyripper? Pyripper is simple, but quite sophisticated digital audio extraction tool written in Python programming language that can create secure rip's in Linux/OsX (very similiar to EAC). The source (same as executable) is published under the (GPL license).

UPDATE: new version 0.1.2 is released at 10 november.
UPDATE: New version 0.1.1 is released at 6 november.
UPDATE: New version 0.1 is released at 5 november.

Features

a command-line program which makes use of cdparanoia.
every track gets ripped twice and is compared with a 160-bit SHA1 checksum
if the checksums differ, the track will be ripped twice again until the checksum matches
CDDB-info is fetched via the pycddb module.
It can rip to FLAC, MP3, and Vorbis.
Lame and Vorbis can be configured, default for lame is: -V2 --vbr-new, default for vorbis is -q 6
You can choose the ripping device, otherwise default is used.
See pyripper --help for more information
The files will be saved as "working directory/extension/artist (year) album/tracknumber - trackname.extension

Pyripper configuration

Make sure to have pycddb and cdparanoia installed as a minimum. You can optionally choose for Lame, Vorbis or FLAC, depending on the codec you want to encode to.

Then download pyripper(Right-click and save to disk): http://www.gentoolinux.demon.nl/pyripper-0.1.2

Then make it executable --> chmod +x pyripper

Move it to your path --> mv pyripper /usr/bin/pyripper (make sure you're root)

Usage:

For example: pyripper --flac --cdrom /dev/hdd

External links

Official website