1ripperX FAQ 2jos.dehaes@bigfoot.com 3Last updated: 2001/11/19 4 5AS YOU MAY HAVE NOTICED THIS FAQ IS *WAY* OUT OF DATE. PLEASE CHECK THE NEW FAQ ON RIPPERX.SOURCEFORGE.NET 6 7(You might also find what you're looking for the BUGS file.) 8 9Q. I keep getting "Error Code 14" 10 11A. This is usually because cdparanoia is not configured properly. If you are 12not running ripperX as root, you will need to either give your userid read 13access to your cdrom device, or make cdparanoia setuid root. 14 15A. cdparanoia may have trouble with your cdrom drive. Try running 16 17cdparanoia -vQ 18 19and you should see a table of contents appear. If you do not see this, check 20the cdparanoia troubleshooting page and FAQ at: 21 22http://www.xiph.org/paranoia/index.html 23 24 25Q. Sometimes I get "Error Code 22: CD not in database" 26 27A. This is because ripperX uses freedb.org, which sometimes is not as up to 28date as cddb.com, especially for new titles. (And vice versa can be true!) I 29believe freedb.org is the "Right Thing To Do", and that is why freedb is the 30default CDDB server. If you keep getting Error 22, there are 2 things you can 31do: 1) open gtcd or similar program and with the CDDB server set to freedb.org, 32fill in the information and submit it. 2) Change the CDDB server in ripperX to 33us.cddb.com (port 888) or us.cddb.com/~cddb/cddb.cgi (port 80 for HTTP). 34 35 36Q. How do I change the name of my files to have the track number, album name, 37etc? 38 39A. In the Files tab of the configuration window, you will see a File format 40string text box. You can name your files anything you want and the special 41% variables will be replaced with CDDB information. 42 43%s = Song Title 44%a = Artist Name 45%# = Track Number 46%v = Album Name 47 48for example, the default string is: 49 50%a - %s 51 52which will produce mp3s like so: 53 54Artist Name - Song Title.mp3 55 56 57Q. How do I make a directory structure like 58 59Artist Name/Album Name/01 - Song Name.mp3? 60 61A. Make sure the "Create album subdirectory for each CD" option is checked. 62For the Directory format string, use: 63 64%a/%v 65 66and for the File format string, use: 67 68%# - %s 69 70 71Q. How can I rip the whole CD first, then encode everything later? 72 73A. Select all the tracks, and select the "Rip wav" 74option. All the tracks will be ripped. You can then quit ripperX and come back 75later. As long as the "Make mp3 from existing wav file" option under the 76General tab is checked, you will be able to encode the files later without 77having to rip them again. This works as long as the file names in the text boxes 78are exactly the same as they were when they were ripped. 79 80 81Q. How do I keep the wav files after encoding them? 82 83A. Check the "Keep wav files" option in the General tab. 84 85 86Q. What about SMP support? 87 88A. There are no plans for ripperX to support SMP directly. However, if you use 89one of the SMP enabled encoders, such as gogo and (I think) lame, SMP support 90will be totally transparent to ripperX. If quality is a major concern, perhaps 91enough people can petition some of the commercial encoder companies to make an 92SMP version of their encoder. 93 94 95Caveats: 96 971. The stop button may not stop the CD playing. This is because the 98"cdplay" program that is shipped with RedHat 6.0 is broken and cannot stop 99playing a CD. 100 1012. Sometimes the freedb.org CDDB server will not have a CD in it. Try changing 102the URL to us.cddb.com/~cddb/cddb.cgi 103