Greetings!

Here are some notes about rip in the short and condensed form:

The file "rip" is a perl script which must be executable to work
correctly. If it is not in this state, do a "chmod 755 rip".

The CDDB/CDDB_get perl module is included for convenience's sake
as it is not likely to be common, yet, and makes the rip script
that much more enjoyable. Installation is easy, at the prompt do:

tar xzvf CDDB_get-1.41.tar.gz
cd CDDB_get-1.41
perl Makefile.PL
make
su -c "make install"

That should untar it, cd into the new dir, create something
makeable, make it, and have *root* run the command "make install"
to install it.

The installation of rip is simple and covered in the file INSTALLING.
It boils down to a "cp" or "mv" of the file "rip" to some place on
your $PATH. If you are root, go ahead and place it in /bin or in
/usr/bin. It's that simple.

Currently, rip supports the following list of CD, MP3, Ogg Vorbis,
and CDDB tools:

cdparanoia
bladeenc
lame
gogo
oggenc
cddb.pl

If you're favorite isn't on the list, just let me know and I'll see
what I can do.

You need, at minimum, cdparanoia and one of: bladeenc, lame, or gogo
installed no your system to rip MP3s. If you want to rip to Ogg Vorbis
you need the *newest* oggenc from www.vorbis.com installed. I'm assuming
that you will install cddb.pl from CDDB_get since I'm providing
the tarball for you: it provides the online CDDB lookup -c/--cddb
functionality.

To check if any of these tools are on your $PATH, just "which"
them out:

[greg@ticktock mp3]$ which cdparanoia
/usr/bin/cdparanoia
[greg@ticktock mp3]$

That'll let you know what you do and don't have already installed.
BUT if you're ripping to Ogg Vorbis using -O/--oggenc instead of
the default MP3 format, you do need the *newest* oggenc installed.

Once rip is on your $PATH, a "rip --help" will help you learn the
flags and get you going on ripping your CD collection. It'll
also warn you if you do not have something important installed
on your system.

In any case, have a pleasurable rip.

Greg
