whipper(1)

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💿 whipper(1) — the CD ripping page, but make it make sense

okay so real talk: this is a page from the General Commands Manual, and it's all about whipper. Buckle up bestie, we're ripping CDs the correct way 💅

✨ NAME ✨

whipper — a CD ripping utility focusing on accuracy over speed. that's the whole personality, and honestly? it ate. 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

whipper [subcommand]
whipper [-R] [-v] [-h] [-e {never failure success always}]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

whipper is a CD ripping utility focusing on accuracy over speed, and she supports multiple features. like, a lot of them. because of that, whipper:

  • Detects correct read offset (in samples) — yes, in samples, she's that precise 🔥
  • Detects whether ripped media is a CD-R
  • Has ability to defeat cache of drives — icon behaviour, no cap
  • Performs Test & Copy rips
  • Verifies rip accuracy using the AccurateRip database
  • Uses MusicBrainz for metadata lookup
  • Supports reading the pre-emphasis flag embedded into some CDs (and correctly tags the resulting rip)
  • Detects and rips non digitally silent Hidden Track One Audio (HTOA) — hidden track girlies rise 🙈
  • Provides batch ripping capabilities
  • Provides templates for file and directory naming
  • Supports lossless encoding of ripped audio tracks (FLAC)
  • Allows extensibility through external logger plugins

💖 OPTIONS 💖

  • -h | --help — show this help message and exit. the classic "help me help you" move 🫶
  • -e | --eject never failure success always — when to eject disc. default is success. the vibes depend entirely on which of never, failure, success, or always you pick 💿
  • -c | --drive-auto-close True False — whether to auto close the drive's tray before reading a CD. default is True ✨
  • -R | --record — record API requests for playback.
  • -v | --version — show version information. simple, iconic, does what it says 🎀

👑 SUBCOMMANDS 👑

whipper gives you a whole tree of subcommands to work with, namely:

  • accurip
  • cd
  • drive
  • image
  • mblookup
  • offset

for more details on these subcommands, see their respective man pages. main character energy all the way down, fr fr 🌈

💀 BUGS 💀

bugs can be reported to your distribution's bug tracker or upstream at <https://github.com/whipper-team/whipper/issues>. don't suffer in silence bestie, go file that report 😭

🔍 SEE ALSO 🔍

whipper-accurip(1), whipper-cd(1), whipper-drive(1), whipper-image(1), whipper-mblookup(1), whipper-offset(1)

🧚 AUTHOR 🧚

Louis-Philippe Véronneau

okay that's the whole page! this little beauty is from 2020, living in the whipper(1) era of history, and yes the date is doing vintage aesthetic 💜 go forth and rip accurately, bestie — accuracy over speed, always 🌟

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