whipper-cd-rip(1)

🎀 NAME 🎀

okay so bestie, this is the whipper-cd-rip(1) page from the General Commands Manual — and it is literally the manual for whipper-cd-rip, whose whole job is: Rips a CD. iconic. 💿✨

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

whipper cd rip [options]
whipper cd rip -h

that's the whole summoning ritual, periodt 💅

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -h | --help — Show this help message and exit.
• -R <RELEASE_ID> | --release-id <RELEASE_ID> — MusicBrainz release id to match to (if there are multiple).
• -p | --prompt — Prompt if there are multiple matching releases.
• -c <COUNTRY> | --country <COUNTRY> — Filter releases by country.
• -L <LOGGER< | --logger <LOGGER> — Logger to use.
• -o <OFFSET> | --offset <OFFSET> — Sample read offset.
• -x | --force-overread — Force overreading into the lead-out portion of the disc. Works only if the patched cdparanoia package is installed and the drive supports this feature.
• -O <OUTPUT_DIRECTORY> | --output-directory <OUTPUT_DIRECTORY> — Output directory; will be included in file paths in log.
• -W <WORKING_DIRECTORY> | --working-directory <WORKING_DIRECTORY> — Working directory; whipper will change to this directory and files will be created relative to it when not absolute.
• --track-template <TRACK_TEMPLATE> — Template for track file naming.
• --disc-template <DISC_TEMPLATE> — Template for disc file naming.
• -U | --unknown — whether to continue ripping if the CD is unknown.
• --cdr — whether to continue ripping if the disc is a CD-R.
• -C | --cover-art file embed complete — Fetch cover art and save it as standalone file, embed into FLAC files or perform both actions: file, embed, complete option values respectively.
• -r | --max-retries <RETRIES> — Number of rip attempts before giving up if can't rip a track. This defaults to 5; 0 means infinity.
• -k | --keep-going — continue ripping further tracks instead of giving up if a track can't be ripped.

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🌸 TEMPLATE SCHEMES 🌸

Tracks are named according to the track template, filling in the variables and adding the file extension. Variables exclusive to the track template are:

• %t: track number
• %a: track artist
• %n: track title
• %s: track sort name

Disc files (.cue, .log, .m3u) are named according to the disc template, filling in the variables and adding the file extension. Variables for both disc and track template are:

• %A: release artist
• %S: release sort name
• %B: release barcode
• %C: release catalog number
• %c: release disambiguation comment
• %d: release title (with disambiguation)
• %D: disc title (without disambiguation)
• %I: MusicBrainz Disc ID
• %M: total number of discs in the chosen release
• %N: number of current disc
• %T: medium title
• %y: release year
• %r: release type, lowercase
• %R: release type, normal case
• %x: audio extension, lowercase
• %X: audio extension, uppercase

Paths to track files referenced in .cue and .m3u files will be made relative to the directory of the disc files.

All files will be created relative to the given output directory. Log files will log the path to tracks relative to this directory 🫶

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

whipper(1), whipper-cd(1), whipper-cd-info(1)

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💖 AUTHOR 💖

Louis-Philippe Véronneau

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💖 that's the whole whipper-cd-rip(1) manual from the General Commands Manual, dated 2021 — mwah, bestie! 💖