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whipper
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A CD ripping utility focusing on accuracy over speed
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:Author: Louis-Philippe Véronneau
:Date: 2020
:Manual section: 1
Synopsis
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| whipper [**subcommand**]
| whipper [**-R**] [**-v**] [**-h**] [**-e** *{never failure success always}*]
Description
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| **whipper** is a CD ripping utility focusing on accuracy over speed that
| supports multiple features. As such, **whipper**:
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| * Detects correct read offset (in samples)
| * Detects whether ripped media is a CD-R
| * Has ability to defeat cache of drives
| * Performs Test & Copy rips
| * Verifies rip accuracy using the AccurateRip database
| * Uses MusicBrainz for metadata lookup
| * Supports reading the pre-emphasis flag embedded into some CDs (and
| correctly tags the resulting rip)
| * Detects and rips non digitally silent Hidden Track One Audio (HTOA)
| * Provides batch ripping capabilities
| * Provides templates for file and directory naming
| * Supports lossless encoding of ripped audio tracks (FLAC)
| * Allows extensibility through external logger plugins
Options
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| **-h** | **--help**
| Show this help message and exit
| **-e** | **--eject** *never failure success always*
| When to eject disc (default: success)
| **-c** | **--drive-auto-close** *True False*
| Whether to auto close the drive's tray before reading a CD
| (default: True)
| **-R** | **--record**
| Record API requests for playback
| **-v** | **--version**
| Show version information
Subcommands
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**whipper** gives you a tree of subcommands to work with, namely:
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| * accurip
| * cd
| * drive
| * image
| * mblookup
| * offset
| For more details on these subcommands, see their respective man pages.
Bugs
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| Bugs can be reported to your distribution's bug tracker or upstream
| at https://github.com/whipper-team/whipper/issues.
See Also
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whipper-accurip(1), whipper-cd(1), whipper-drive(1), whipper-image(1),
whipper-mblookup(1), whipper-offset(1)