README

March 3, 2012 · View on GitHub

X Audio Copy

This program, written in python, was created as an interface to the excellent ripper moriruri (http://thomas.apestaart.org/morituri/trac/), the only viable alternative to Exact Audio Copy for Linux. It can extract audio from CDs, convert audio files to different formats using gstreamer and using external stand-alone encoders like lame, oggenc or flac. I also added a simple player and the ability to manipulate audio files metada.

== Dependencies ==

python >= 2.6 (no 3.x branch)
gtk, pygtk >= 2.16
gstreamer, pygst >= 0.10 - multimedia framework and its python binding
morituri >= 0.1.2 - python CD-Audio ripper (only command line)
CDDB, DiscID (python-cddb) >= 1.4 - python module to access a CDDB-server and get information about discs
PIL (python-imaging) >= 1.1.7 - python imaging library
mutagen (python-mutagen) >= 1.19 - python module to handle audio metadata (ID3 tags,...)

Note - All these packages are usually available in major distributions (Ubuntu, Linux Mint), except perhaps about to morituri and mutagen

Not essential, but strongly recommended:

lame - the best mp3 encoder (command-line version)
oggenc - vorbis encoder
flac - flac lossless encoder
other command-line encoders...

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the License or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program (see COPYING); if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA