---
name: "dr_cdrip"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "draai"
version: "20110603-1"
release: "Debian 7 (Wheezy)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/dr_cdrip"
---

# dr\_cdrip(1)

rip audio cd's to ogg

## NAME

dr\_cdrip - rip audio cd's to ogg

## SYNOPSIS

**dr\_cdrip** **\[***args***\]** \< *id3-tag-file*

## DESCIPTION

dr\_cdrip sets up a [*cdparanoia*(1)](/cdparanoia/1.md) - [*oggenc*(1)](/oggenc/1.md) pipe for each track on your  audio cd, so that the audio on your cd will be stored as .ogg files on your  harddisk. *args* will get passed to each songs' [*oggenc*(1)](/oggenc/1.md) invocation.

*id3-tag-file* could look like this:

```
 Jaffa - Star 67
 Think of one - Den Antwaarpse Shabi
 Klute - Angry Woman
 Electrotwist - The Smurfer
```

Evil characters are discarded from the file, we don't want them to appear in filenames. If a line lacks a ' - ', the line is assumed to be a title.

Defauls setting of [*oggenc*(1)](/oggenc/1.md)'s --quality level is 7, override by setting the CDRIP\_QUALITY environment variable.

Note: mp3's id3 tags seem to be called "comments" in the .ogg world.

## EXAMPLE

```
 dj@gelfand ~$ export CDRIP_QUALITY=9
 dj@gelfand /h.../The_New_York_Contemporary_Five$ dr_cdrip \
  -l "The New York Contemporary Five" -a "Archie Shepp" \
  -c "description=Don Cherry: crnt, Archie Shepp: ts, Don \
  Moore: b, JC Moses:d" -c "genre=Jazz" -c "date=1963" \
  -c "location=Copenhagen" \
  -c "copyright=1991 Storyville Records" -c "license=All Rights Reserved" \
  -c "organization=Storyville" \
  -c "contact=http://www.storyville-records.com/" \
  -c "diskid=bd10c70d" < /tmp/songlist
```

See DISCID HOWTO on http://freedb.org/modules.php?name=Sections&sop=viewarticle&artid=6 for info on disk id.  Beware!  A diskid comment is \_not\_ mentioned in the xiph.org suggestions!

(oggenc's -t will be used by dr\_cdrip. -a might be.)

supported extra comments are (see ogg123.c)

```
 VERSION=, TRACKNUMBER=, ISRC=
```

ARTIST is -a, ALBUM is -l TITLE is -t.

VERSION is e.g. 'Biosphere Foo Mix'.  Multipe ARTIST tags can occur; this use is encouraged if applicable.  -c foo will be displayed by ogg123 as 'Comment: foo'.

Run something like:

```
 cdcd tracks | sed 's/^.*\]\ *//' | sed 's/\ $//'
```

to extract a songlist from a cddb database.

## BUGS

The format of the songinfo input file is non-standard.  Support for cddb is lacking.

## SEE ALSO

http://xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/doc/v-comment.html

abcde - A Better CD Encoder at http://www.hispalinux.es/~data/abcde.php

## VERSION, SOURCE

This file is maintained at http://git.mdcc.cx/draai

## HISTORY

First version written 2001-01-09.  Last maintenance, as of 2007-08-22, done at 2005-12-14.

## COPYRIGHT

Copyright: AX 2001-2005 Joost van Baal

This program is in the public domain.

## AUTHOR

Joost van Baal \<spamhere@mdcc.cx\>