20 years ago I was maintainer of ripperX, which was written in C and gtk 1.x. I started a rewrite (also in C, but using gtk 2), called ripperX 3. The code was still forking cdparanoia and lame and reading its output... But it was never finished and abandoned (also by the new maintainers). My friend Kris created a library libcddb (which still exists, although also no longer maintained by him). I came across the ripperx3 branch (the source is still available on sourceforge after all those years!) and tried to revive it, but not much sense in reviving an app written in C and linked against an obsolete GTK+ version. So I started rewriting it in Rust, gstreamer and GTK 4.

This is mostly a learning excercise for me, not sure if this will get released at all (but hey, it's on github so anyone can build it ;-)). It includes code to query the disc on musicbrainz service (previous versions used gnudb, but that service seems down now, so I bit the bullet and implemented a basic query to musicbrainz vast info).

It is now almost feature complete, see below:

• can scan CDROM drive
• query musicbrainz
• you can edit the data
• adds tags to the files
• you can select which tracks to rip
• supports MP3, OGG, FLAC and OPUS
• you can set quality options

• no support for multiple matches from musicbrainz (just takes the first match)
• composer field

Install gtk 4, gstreamer, libdiscid

cargo build

Tip: builds for x86 macOS and linux are available on every build in Actions/Artifacts.

cargo run