NAME 

grip - A gtk-based cd-player and cd-ripper.

gcd - A gtk-based cd-player (used as part of grip, or alone).

SYNOPSIS 

  grip [-d <device>] [-s] [-l]

  gcd [-d <device>] [-f] [-l]

DESCRIPTION 

Grip is a gtk-based cd-player and cd-ripper. It has the ripping capabilities of cdparanoia builtin, but can also use external rippers (such as cdda2wav). It also provides an automated frontend for MP3 encoders, letting you take a disc and transform it easily straight into MP3s. The CDDB protocol is supported for retrieving track information from disc database servers. Grip works with DigitalDJ to provide a unified ``computerized'' version of your music collection. GCD is the cd-player only version of Grip.

Because Grip and GCD share much of their functionality, this file documents both of them. If you installed only GCD, you should ignore the bits that talk about ``ripping'' and ``encoding'' of tracks.

Grip is designed to work closely with DigitalDJ, my SQL-based mp3 jukebox system (although it does not require it). DigitalDJ can be obtained from: