Grip is a

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Compact Disc player and

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. The software is rather similar to

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on Windows - without sound card capture feature; it is fast,

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, 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

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website, on March 17, 2000, and made pre-compiled binaries for RPM

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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 on moving development back to the old project, and released v3.3.5. As of February 26, 2018, the current released version is 3.6.3. Development seems to be on-going and the current release works well.

Features

* Full-featured CD player with a small screen footprint in "condensed" mode *

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lookup/submission to share track information over the net * HTTP proxy support for those behind firewalls * Loop, shuffle, and playlist modes *

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of single, multiple, or partial tracks *

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of ripped .wav files into

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files. * Simultaneous rip and encode * Support for multiple encode processes on

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machines * Adding ID3v1/v2 tags to MP3 files after encoded * Cooperating with DigitalDJ, a

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-based MP3

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Gallery

File:Grip01.png, MP3 config options File:Grip02.png, Ripping options File:Grip03.png, Track listing

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History

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