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To rip audio tracks from a CD with grip , do the following:
1. With the Grip window open, insert a music CD into your CD drive. If you have an active
connection to the Internet and the CD is known to the CD database, the title, artist, and
track information appears in the window.
2. Click each track that you want to rip (that is, copy to your hard disk). A check mark
appears in that track's Rip column.
3. Click the Config tab at the top of the page, and then select Encode.
4. You can choose the type of encoder used to compress the music by clicking the Encoder
box and selecting an encoder (by default, oggenc compresses files in Ogg Vorbis,
assuming that Ogg Vorbis was installed on your Linux distribution).
5. Click the Rip tab at the top of the page.
6. Click one of the following:
Rip+Encode - This rips the selected songs and (if you left in the default oggenc compression in Step 4) compresses them in Ogg Vorbis format. You need an Ogg Vorbis player to play the songs after they have been ripped in this format (there are many Ogg Vorbis players for Linux).
Rip only - This rips the selected songs in WAV format. You can use a standard CD player to play these songs. (When I tried this, the same song ripped in WAV was 12 times larger than the Ogg Vorbis file.)
Songs are copied to the hard disk in the format you selected. By default, the files are copied into a subdirectory of $HOME/ogg (such as/home/jake/ogg). The subdirectory is named for the artist and CD. For example, if the user jake were ripping the song called "High Life" by the artist Mumbo, the directory containing ripped songs would be /home/jake/ogg/mumbo/high_life. Each song file is named for the song (for example, fly_fly_fly.wav).
7. Now you can play any of the files using a player that can play WAV or Ogg files, such as
XMMS. Or you can copy the files to a CD using cdrecord . Because the filenames are the
song names, they don't appear in the same order as they appear on the CD, so if you want
to copy them back to a writable CD in their original order, you may have to type each
filename on the cdrecord command line. For example:
# cdrecord -v dev=/dev/cdrom -audio fly_fly.wav \
big_news.wav about_time.wav