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Rip is an application for accurate CD audio extraction.

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PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 or later.

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High quality audio ripper.

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Endolab commented on 23 Aug 2011

Rest In Peace?

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Davidravenmoon replied on 11 Dec 2011

People started saying "RIP" when they were copying CDs, probably from when people RIP'd files for printing. In that case they were converting vector to raster files; RIP stands for "Raster Image Processing". There's no reason to use it for audio extraction, but it has become common, even if it has no direct meaning in this instance.

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Endolab replied on 12 Dec 2011

Thanks you for the info David. I thought it was about ripping something out (maybe there are several meaning). But talking about informatics it makes sense indeed.

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Uncoy reviewed on 05 Mar 2010

Rip is the only software for OS X that allows you to easily submit data to FreeDB and Musicbrainz. Others will only let you receive.

iCDc will submit to FreeDB but it's tricky to make it do so with the iTunes data.

More info at: http://foliovision.com/2010/03/02/freedb-cddb-musicbrainz-on-osx

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Marek reviewed on 01 Jan 2010

Excellent cd-ripper!

It is still in beta but works as advertised. Many features, with most important - AccurateRip checking.

Pros:
This is proper 'Exact Audio Copy' replacement for Mac.

Cons:
Lacks LAME MP3 encoding (yet?).

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Davidravenmoon replied on 11 Dec 2011

You can only be as accurate as the particular CD you are extracting audio from. CDs have errors, and also have built in error correction, but you can't replace bits that are missing. All the software that says it does 100% accurate copies is a bit of a misnomer.

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Ossie commented on 17 Dec 2009

Snake oil. Validity of process is as much theory based as true replication. Yes there is Accurate Rip "verification" but beyond that users are left to accept on faith in the concept.

For personal use as an archive tool it is straightforwardly easy, quick, and valid enough (though limited by extracting to lossless only). For use in a trading world it will never be accepted.

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