whipper(1)

whipper1

A cd ripping utility focusing on accuracy over speed

Usage

whipper [subcommand]

whipper [-R] [-v] [-h] [-e never failure success always]

Overview

whipper is a CD ripping utility focusing on accuracy over speed that
supports multiple features. As such, whipper:

    

    
        
* Detects correct read offset (in samples)
* Detects whether ripped media is a CD-R
* Has ability to defeat cache of drives
* Performs Test & Copy rips
* Verifies rip accuracy using the AccurateRip database
* Uses MusicBrainz for metadata lookup
* Supports reading the pre-emphasis flag embedded into some CDs (and
correctly tags the resulting rip)
* Detects and rips non digitally silent Hidden Track One Audio (HTOA)
* Provides batch ripping capabilities
* Provides templates for file and directory naming
* Supports lossless encoding of ripped audio tracks (FLAC)
* Allows extensibility through external logger plugins

Options

-h | --help
Show this help message and exit
-e | --eject  never failure success always
When to eject disc (default: success)
-c | --drive-auto-close True False
Whether to auto close the drive's tray before reading a CD
(default: True)
-R | --record
Record API requests for playback
-v | --version
Show version information

Subcommands

whipper gives you a tree of subcommands to work with, namely:


    

    
        
* accurip
* cd
* drive
* image
* mblookup
* offset
For more details on these subcommands, see their respective man pages.

Releases

3 releases since Debian 12 (Bookworm); the text changed 2 times.

  1. 12
  2. 13
  3. Arch

Bugs

Bugs can be reported to your distribution's bug tracker or upstream
at <https://github.com/whipper-team/whipper/issues>.

Author

Louis-Philippe Véronneau

From whipper 0.10.0-9 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.