Free rip software for linux

Rip is a command-line based audio CD track ripper and MP3, FLAC, or Ogg Vorbis encoder. I would believe that you probably already have all required tools on your system. Perhaps, even the CDDB/CDDB_get and MP3::Info perl modules. However, not everyone will have them installed by their distribution, therefore, I have included a tarball of these modules in my releases. You can get them on your own as well. Just thought Id save you the trouble. Installation notes for those packages can be found in the file README.
You only need one of bladeenc, lame, notlame, or gogo if you plan to rip to MP3 an is likely that you already have one of those. If you plan to rip to Ogg Vorbis, you will need the *newest* version of oggenc installed. Likewise, if you want to rip to FLAC, you will need flac installed on your system.
For CD track ripping, Ill be amazed if cdparanoia isnt on your system by default (assuming you run Linux). Otherwise there is always cdda2wav. I will further be amazed if perl isnt on your system by default. So, likely all you might need to install, other than rip, is CDDB/CDDB_get and MP3::Info. Those go in pretty easily. Read the README for more information and detailed notes.
Enhancements:
- (1) Grrr. This time for sure. Fix the $#%@! quote problem when tagging ogg vorbis files. Why exactly did ogg developers decide it would be a "good idea" if tagging was done on the command-line where shells could screw up special chars left, right, and sideways. Anyway, about a dozen different "fixes" patching this problem came into
- my inbox. I think I have done one that will leave special chars (like those german us) alone but also not screw up on a filename with in it. We shall see how I fare this time. No credit is going anywhere on this one but it sure was nice to have several patch possiblities to choose from. Thanks to everyone who gave this some thought. Hopefully I dont have to go near this one again.
- (2) Another thing people have been beating me over the head about since I started this is whether files should be named using " " or "_" for white-space. Now theres a flag to turn on and off the use of underscores while renaming files. Note that now you need to use -n/--nounderscore if you do not want underscores in filenames, even if you are using -f/--format. Marco von Loon finally motivated me on this one.
- (3) No longer append extension to rip temp file because it is useless and because when you loop over many CDs, the while loop causes the appension of the extension multiple times unless you move it to a very odd part of the code. Thanks to Kevin Mulholland.
- (4) No longer remove "-" from dir and file names. Just got a little overzealous removing special chars from names that would cause crashes otherwise. Oh w ll.A
- Thanks to Marco von Loon.
- (5) Kevin Lester caught a rare bug: if the CDDB entry is the empty string for some tracks, the parse logic goes into an infinite loop. properNameList is now checked for "" and replaces it with "Unknown".
- (6) Russel Smith was first to notice that the "-o" flag needs to be appended to the end of the flag list. As the code that did this work was a patch and not something I tested, this problem has been around for a while. Good thing someone is actually using flac and noticed. Tai Lee suggests removing the stdin "-" flag entirely. Anyone know if that is a good idea on all platforms?
- (7) Mike Irwin noticed that $dev from ~/.riprc on the first run causes problems and should be tested.
- (8) Playlists are now created relative to the inital directory you ran rip from. Though he didnt have it quite right, this too was motivated by Marco von Loon.

tsrip is an audio CD ripping and encoding solution. tsrip project supports free codecs, gets album information from the musicbrainz database, and has a simple-to-use command-line user interface.

AutoRip is a non-interactive, non-intrusive mp3 rip-and-encode front end. Simply drop your CD into your CD-ROM drive, wait for your CD to eject, wash, rinse, and repeat.

NeroRip is a tool that rips tracks from Nero 5.x images and makes it possible to burn them using standard Linux CD mastering programs.

ripmake is a fully automatic command line ripping makefile generator for transcode.
The idea of ripmake is to write a tool which automatically (i.e. with as few user interaction as possible) selects the best parameters for a given ripping task. It should inspect the source (e.g. a DVD or an AVI file), extract all important information, calculate the missing parameters and generate a parameter set for transcode that will create an output file of high quality.
First I thought of a tool that performs all the necessary steps itself and calls transcode for the real work. But I soon found out that often a bit of manual intervention is required to achieve the best results. So a different approach came to my mind: Why not write a tool that generates a makefile for the rip and that embeds all automatic options as parameters in it. You can then call different rules for different rip tasks (e.g. render a sample, render whole movie...) and you can overwrite the parameters by redefining the make variables.
So here it is: ripmake - A makefile generator for your ripping tasks.
The first version was quite alpha and simply tried to prove the concept. The current version is an almost complete rewrite of the first version and is quite useful.
Current Status
Supported Sources:
- DVD disc or image
- AVI file (DIVX, MJPEG tested)
Supported Targets/Flavors:
- AVI MPEG4 (XviD, Divx4/5)
- VCD (PAL tested)
- SVCD (PAL tested)

dvd::rip is a full featured DVD copy program written in Perl. It provides an easy to use but feature-rich Gtk+ GUI to control almost all aspects of the ripping and transcoding process.
dvd::rip project uses the widely known video processing swissknife transcode and many other Open Source tools. dvd::rip itself is licensed under GPL / Perl Artistic License.
Main features:
- Runs on Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD (and probably other Unices) and does not depend on anything produced in Redmond - pure Open Source!
- Rip to harddisk, on the fly or from an existent DVD image
- Select audio track(s), viewing angle(s), multitple titles
- Rip as much audio tracks as you like into one AVI/OGG/SVCD file
- Supports nearly all of transcodes video codecs, e.g: divx4, divx5, xvid, xvidcvs, ffmpeg, fame, opendivx and mpeg2enc
- DivX/Xvid multipass encoding
- (S)VCD modes, with multiple audio tracks for SVCD
- Integrated video bitrate calculator based on target size resp. number of discs
- Automatic splitting of the target files for best fit on the specified number of discs
- Several deinterlace filter presets
- Audio AC3 and PCM passthrough
- Audio MP3 encoding
- Audio volume maximizing and/or range compression
- OGG/Vorbis support, quality and bitrate based, adjusting the optimal video bitrate after audio transcoding in quality mode
- WAV file creation from a selected audio track
- Subtitle rendering and vobsub creation
- Support for all transcode video filters, with realtime configuration and video preview
- Live video transcoding preview window
- Chapter mode: one file per chapter
- Use your favorite movie player for preview
- Provide frame clipping, resizing and final clipping
- Powerful auto adjusting of all clip & zoom parameters
- Adjust clipping area using drag and drop
- dvd::rips zoom calculator let you adjust every possible parameter, if you like to do so
- Two resize modes: fast and high quality resizing
- Simple but easy to use CD burning facility
- Last but not least a comprehensive cluster mode, which let you use all your Linux/Unix hardware for parallel encoding.
Enhancements:
- A small screen layout mode was added, which makes dvd::rip fit on small screens like 15" widescreen notebooks.

Lxdvdrip is a command line tool to make a copy from a video DVD. It automates the process of ripping, authoring, previewing, and burning the DVD.
Lxdvdrip project uses tools like mplayer, transcode, streamdvd, dvdauthor, and growisofs. You can backup the main feature or the whole DVD.
Main features:
- Automatic Selection of the longest Title
- Automatic Calculation of Factor to Requant
- Automatic Read of Volume-ID
- Automatic Chapter Separation from Original
- Ripping of Audiotracks in every Language
- Selection of dts-Audiotracks as Default
- Selection of two Subpicture-Tracks possible
- Ripping and Re-Authoring
- Preview of VOB-Files with mplayer or xine
- Burning with growisofs or cdrecord-prodvd
- All Program Parameters could be stored in a Config File as Program Defaults
- All Paramaters can be overwritten on the fly at the Command Line
- Program with english, french or german Messages
- Rip of Subpicture-Tracks
- Copy DVD smaller than a DVD-R 1:1 with Menus, > 4.7 GB with vamps, without Menus.
- Partial Copy: Copy selected Titles from a DVD (dvdunauthor/vamps)
- High Quality Backup (1 DVD9 => 2 DVD5)
- DVD with Menus for Title-, Audio- and Chapter Selection (dvdwizard)

M3U Ripper is a Firefox extension that allows you to rip the contents of an m3u, wmx, or ram playlist file link by right clicking on the link and selecting the "Rip Playlist Contents..." option from the popup menu. The option will only appear if the URL ends with the proper file extension.

All the URLs in the M3U file are downloaded via the Firefox download manager to the default download directory or the one specified in the M3U Ripper options. You can also optionally have M3U Ripper create a sub directory with the playlist file name, create the remote playlist file, create a local playlist file, and filter URLs within the playlist files via regular expressions.