CDGRAB
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cdgrab is a frontend command-line utility (actually, a shell script) that
grabs tracks off a CD, encodes them to mp3 format, and tags them, all in
one go, and typically with less than 100MB of diskspace.

Your finished MP3's are stored in a subdirectory of the current directory
(named after the artist) with a filename based on the track title. Spaces
are replaced by underscores, and apostrophes and control codes are filtered
out. The end result usually looks like: Metallica/Dont_Tread_On_Me.mp3

cdgrab requires the following backend tools to work:

* An MP3 encoder (lamer, bladeenc, l3enc, etc). cdgrab defaults to using
  lamer. To change this, edit /etc/cdgrab.conf, and uncomment and change
  the ENCODER line. Any MP3 encoder that takes two filenames on the command
  line, one for input, one for output, will work.
  You can get lamer at:
	http://www.cryogen.com/mikecheng/lame/files/dist10patch-2.1f.gz
	ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/sci/audio/mpeg/mpeg-examplecode/dist10.tar.gz
	(You need both files - one is a patch for the other.)
  You can get BladeEnc at: http://home8.swipnet.se/~w-82625/
* CD Paranoia, an audio CD reading utility.
* cd-discid, a CDDB DiscID reading program. Included with cdgrab.
* libcdaudio, an audio CD player library.
* wget, an HTTP retrieval program.
* id3, an id3 tagging program.
--
Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org>
