Editing Grip (software)

{{Short description|CD ripper}}
{{about|a CD player and ripper program|other software topics|grip (disambiguation)}}
{{Infobox software
| name                   = Grip
| logo                   = Griplogo.png
| logo size              = 80px
| screenshot             = Grip 3.2 on Debian screenshot.png
| screenshot size        = 240px
| caption                = Grip 3.2
| developer              = Grip developers
| latest release version = 4.2.4
| latest release date    = {{Start date and age|2022|11|28}}
| operating system       = [[Linux]], [[Unix-like]]
| programming language   = [[C (programming language)|C]]
| genre                  = [[CD ripper]]
| license                = [[GNU General Public License]]
| website                = {{URL|http://sourceforge.net/projects/grip/}}
}}

'''Grip''' is a [[free software|free]] [[CD player]] and [[CD ripper]].

The software is rather similar to [[Audiograbber]] on Windows - without sound card capture feature; it is fast, [[Lightweight software|lightweight]], and easy to compile.

Grip uses a selection of encoders, including [[cdparanoia]].

==History==
The original author, Mike Oliphant, originally registered Grip as a project at [[SourceForge.net]], the [[free and open-source software]] website, on March 17, 2000, and made pre-compiled binaries for [[RPM Package Manager|RPM]] [[Linux distributions]] available. However, by mid-2005 development had stalled, and while the software was still very much usable, in effect it languished without a maintainer. In late 2016, a new maintainer, Johnny Solbu, stepped up by forking the project into "Grip 2" based on version 3.3.1 of the original. In April 2017, he gained access to the original project page and stated on the forked project page his intention to move development back to the old project,<ref>{{cite web
| url=http://sourceforge.net/projects/grip2/
| title=Grip2
| quote = We have now accuired {{sic}} access to the old grip project here on SF. Coding will therefore move back to the original project page
| publisher=[[SourceForge]]
| accessdate=2017-04-14}}</ref> and release v3.3.5.

== Features ==
* Full-featured CD player with a small screen footprint in "condensed" mode
* [[freedb|Database]] lookup/submission to share track information over the net
* [[Proxy server|HTTP proxy]] support for those behind firewalls
* Loop, shuffle, and playlist modes
* [[Ripping]] of single, multiple, or partial tracks
* [[data compression|Encoding]] of ripped .wav files into [[Ogg Vorbis]], [[MP3]] or [[FLAC]] files.
* Simultaneous rip and encode
* Support for multiple encode processes on [[Symmetric multiprocessing|SMP]] machines
* Adding [[ID3|ID3v1/v2]] tags to MP3 files after encoded
* Cooperating with DigitalDJ, a [[MySQL]]-based MP3 [[jukebox]]

== Gallery ==
<gallery>
File:Grip01.png|MP3 config options
File:Grip02.png|Ripping options
File:Grip03.png|Track listing
</gallery>

== See also ==
{{Portal|Linux|Free and open-source software}}
* [[Sound Juicer]] – The official CD ripper of [[GNOME]]
* [[Asunder (software)|Asunder]] – Another [[GTK]]-based CD ripper

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
{{Commons category|Grip (software)}}
* {{cite web
| url=http://nostatic.org/grip/
| title=The old Grip homepage
| archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111010184247/http://nostatic.org/grip/
| archivedate=2011-10-10
| url-status=dead}}
* {{cite web
| url=http://sourceforge.net/projects/grip/
| title=Grip
| publisher=SourceForge
| accessdate=2014-04-24}}
* {{cite web
| url=http://sourceforge.net/projects/mp3mesa/
| title=MP3 MESA
| publisher=[[SourceForge]]
| accessdate=2014-04-24}} a [[Fork (software development)|fork]]
* {{cite web
| url=http://sourceforge.net/projects/grip2/
| title=Grip2
| publisher=[[SourceForge]]
| accessdate=2017-01-02}} a [[Fork (software development)|fork]] launched december 30, 2016

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[[Category:Free audio software]]
[[Category:Free software programmed in C]]
[[Category:Linux CD ripping software]]
[[Category:Optical disc-related software that uses GTK]]
[[Category:Software using the GNU General Public License]]

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