PhonoRipper

PhonoRipper leads you comfortably through all steps of creating an audio-CD from analog sources like vinyl records or tape cassettes:

• sound file recorder with built-in level meter and mixer, fully buffered recording with both ALSA and OSS drivers.
• easy splitting of recorded album sides into tracks with automatic track-detection and graphical marking of track borders.
• automatic normalizing of volumes of recordings from different sources for mix CD's.
• intuitive drag'n'drop CD-writing gui with CD-text editing support and TrackType.org CD-database interface.
• built-in html help browser.
• Batteries are included: no compilation necessary.

Requirements

A few dependencies must be fulfilled so that Phonoripper will be able to work:

• Python >= 2.3 and Tkinter must be installed on your system.
• The Python Imaging Library (PIL) >= 1.1.5
• Tcl/Tk >= 8.4 (all these should come with any recent distribution).
• The Tktreectrl Tk extension (v 2.1 or higher); for your convenience the Python wrapper module TkinterTreectrl is included in PhonoRipper.
• The TkImg Tk extension for PNG image support; this is included in many distros (look for a package like tk-imaging, img-tk, libtk-img or something similar).
• snack >= 2.2.2 (www.speech.kth.se/snack); your distribution's package might be called "snack" or "libsnack" or something similar.
• automatic volume adjustment requires normalize .
• for CD-writing you will need cdrdao which should be included in any recent distribution.

Limitations

What's totally missing yet is any filtering of noise and scratches. I recommend the excellent Gnome-Wave-Cleaner for that.

Bugs

Probably .
Send bug reports , comments and suggestions to : Michael Lange <klappnase (at) freakmail (dot) de>.

If you encounter problems, maybe you will find help at the FAQ.

Installation

Unpack the tar.bz2 archive, then type

     cd phonoripper-0.11.0 && ./install

to install PhonoRipper into /usr/local . If you want to install PhonoRipper somewhere else, you can use

    ./install --prefix=<somewhere-else>

If you don't like PhonoRipper, type

    ./install --uninstall

to remove the installation.

Usage

    phonoripper : start the main program

    phonoripper -m , --mixer : start the mixer interface

License

PhonoRipper is licensed under the terms of the Gnu General Public License.

News

Aug. 15 2007: PhonoRipper-0.9.7

Phonoripper now parses the output of "cdrdao scanbus -v 0" in order to detect CD devices instead of searching the /proc filesystem, which fixes a crash when running Phonoripper with newer kernel versions.

Aug. 31 2008 : PhonoRipper-0.10.0

Phonoripper now includes a yet quite basic WYSIWYG CD cover editor (requires both a complete install of tkImg and PIL). More information about bugfixes and other changes can be found as usually in the ChangeLog.

Dec. 03 2008 : PhonoRipper-0.10.1

I redesigned the mixer interface and added a "Mute" switch per mixer track. Besides this I made a few minor cosmetic changes.

Nov. 30 2009 : PhonoRipper-0.11.0

cdrdao scanbus appears to be broken when used with newer kernel versions, causing the device scan to take quite a long time and / or fail; I added a workaround for this:
the automatic call to "cdrdao scanbus" on program startup can now be disabled (the default) and the CD writer device can be configured manually.
This scanbus bug has apparently been fixed in cdrdao-1.2.3 , so upgrading cdrdao is probably a good idea, if possible.
Besides this I made a few other changes, more information can be as usually found in the ChangeLog.

Dec. 05 2009 : PhonoRipper-0.11.1

I fixed a bug that would cause PhonoRipper to crash at program start when the sound device is blocked by another program.

Mar. 20 2010 : PhonoRipper-0.11.2

A broken Blt could cause a segfault on some systems when Pmw tries to load Blt (this has been reported to occur on Ubuntu 9.10, but other distibutions might be affected as well); this would cause phonoripper to crash each time a dialog window is opened. I changed the Pmw code responsible for loading Blt so that it will never be loaded, which should fix this problem.

Download

PhonoRipper is available on phonoripper's sourceforge site

Contact

Any comments, bug reports and suggestions are highly welcome.
Please mailto:
Michael Lange <klappnase (at) freakmail (dot) de>

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