where is grip ripper?

[Avi Schwartz]

Alan McKay wrote:
> Hey folks,
>
> A buddy of mine always goes on about cdparanoia and grip - which is
> part of why I switched my desktop to Linux.
>
> I found cdparanoia, but cannot find grip.   I don't think it is any of these :
>
> root at alan-ubuntu:~# apt-cache search grip
> emdebian-archive-keyring - GnuPG archive keys for the emdebian repository
> emdebian-grip - support for the Grip flavour of Emdebian
> emdebian-grip-server - server-side support for Emdebian Grip
> libdebian-packages-compare-perl - emdebian repository comparison support
> tk-tile - A themed widget set provider library for Tk
>
> My buddy is a red hat guy so maybe we just don't have that?
>
> I've got a bunch of WAVs that I just wrote a script for to convert to
> mp3, and he mentioned that with grip it will go out to the internet
> and get all the ID3 info and embed it into the mp3.  So alternately,
> can anyone recommend a way to do that in ubuntu.  Preferably a way
> that is scriptable because I have a bunch of WAVs and do not want to
> have to load each one manually.
>
> thanks,
> -Alan
>   
Ubuntu used to have grip available until 9.10 and then it was dropped 
supposedly because it is no longer maintained.  I looked for similar GUI 
based rippers that can handle flac properly and found none that I liked. 
I ended up settling on RipIT which is text (console) based but it is 
doing a superb job of ripping, tagging and encoding.  It is in the 
repositories so you may want to give it  a try.

Tip: run it once and then then modify the text file ~/.ripit/config and 
set all your default configuration there.  Once you do it all you have 
to do is just run ripit and it will do the rest automatically.

Avi