NMP3 Ripper v0.7.0
author: Stuart Belden
email: [email protected]
website: http://www.stumod.com/code.html
released: December 25th, 2006
LAME version: v3.97
LAME website: http://lame.sourceforge.net/
Features: (nothing fancy, but simple things everyone can appreciate)
-- one click mp3 encoding. It's even easier than iTunes and you get much
better quality (and smaller!) mp3s!
-- freedb support. NMP3 Ripper will grab all the CD track information so
you don't have to type it all in by hand.
-- id3 tag support. NMP3 Ripper adds id3 tags to all mp3s you encode.
-- m3u and sfv file creation
Instructions:
1. Launch NMP3 Ripper
2. Insert the CD your want to convert to MP3.
3. Hit Enter.
That's it! It'll automatically lookup the cd data on the web, convert your
cd to mp3 format, and put all the mp3s in a folder in your home Music
directory. (/Users/username/Music/). If you don't want them to be put there,
you can choose any other folder with enough hard drive space.
Additional help is available from the Help menu.
Things I would like to see but aren't a priority right now:
-- freedb CD submission support. If you look up a CD and it isn't found,
you have the option submit the artist, album title, and track names yourself.
Misc:
Any questions, comments, or hate mail should be directed to Stu at
[email protected]. If you want NMP3 Ripper to do something it doesn't, tell
me! I can probably add it (time being the biggest constraint right now...)
If you'd like to know more about LAME itself or get the source code to LAME,
check out http://lame.sourceforge.net/
Disclaimer:
Though it is highly improbably that NMP3 Ripper will cause any horrible
mind-bending problems with your system, this disclaimer still stands: StuMoD
Software will not be held responsible for any damages caused by the use or
misuse of NMP3 Ripper. By using this software you are accepting full
responsibility for any and all damage it may cause to your hardware, software,
physical person, spiritual alignment, or any animal within a 100 mile radius.
You may not re-distribute NMP3 Ripper without my explicit written consent. If
you really want to to distribute NMP3 Ripper, please contact me. I will almost
certainly give you permission, I would just like to know about it. :)
Version History:
0.7.0 -- NMP3 Ripper is now a universal binary
Upgraded to LAME 3.97
Added recommended default option --vbr-new -V 2
0.6.8 -- Upgraded to use LAME 3.96
As a side effect, tracks with extended characters should rip correctly.
0.6.7 -- Better handing of tracks ripped from something other than CD.
0.6.6 was incorrectly stripping ' characters; 0.6.7 fixes that error.
The album info dialog now only displays those tracks that are picked to
be ripped.
0.6.6 -- Fixed issue with 0.6.5 where expert field often failed to work
at all.
0.6.5 -- sfv generation would fail for files w/ international characters
in them. -- fixed.
Tracks with certain characters were being skipped -- fixed
The horrible atrocity known as the NMP3 Ripper GUI has evolved! -- it's
still pretty horrible, though.
Keeps track of as many expert config options as you'd like now.
Added -Z flag option for those that like to live on the edge (only
applies to basic config options; not expert).
More and improved documentation, available through the Help menu.
Changed Preferences window keyboard shortcut to cmd-, (same as Safari)
so as not interfere w/ spelling shortcut;
0.6.1 -- "replace spaces with underscores" now affects the output folder
name and m3u, sfv, and nfo files.
better sfv compatibility with various windows sfv programs.
0.6.0 -- Added an option to create m3u and svf files.
The "couldn't find the cd in the db" dialog is no longer displayed;
No longer adds ".TOC" to the list of track names when an album cannot
be found.
There is now a list of acceptable Genres.
Fixed problem where some albums (usually with unusual Genre
classification) refused to encode.
0.5.7 -- %a and %l in the name style field were not always being picked
up correctly.
Ripping would sometimes fail if "add id3 tags" was not checked.
The default album and track information uses the track names of the
selected files you're ripping.
You can now cancel ripping while in the track info dialog sheet.
0.5.6 -- Fixed a possible crash when ripping two "freedb inexact match"
albums in a row.
Switched to using sheets instead of random popup windows for dialog
boxes.
Fixed a typo in the readme that's been around since v0.1 :)
Provided a version that works with LAME 3.93.1
0.5.5 -- Much improved id3 tag support. Genre and Year tags are added;
you can now add album-wide comments.
NMP3 Ripper now tries to make better sense of various artist cds.
Various bug fixes and code cleaning.
0.5.4 -- Mac OS 10.2 compatibility. This and all future versions are
incompatible with Mac OS 10.1.5 and earlier.
0.5.3 -- fixed bug where non-english characters from freedb would get
mangled. Badly.
note: freedb only supports ISO-8859-1 (Latin 1), but UTF-8 support
for their server software is in the works.
fixed bug with ripping files not on a CD.
added ability to specify a freedb lookup server. A list of mirrors is
available at:
http://www.freedb.org/modules.php?name=Sections&sop=viewarticle&artid=9
0.5.2 -- fixed bug where choosing only one track to encode would fail.
Added ability to create directory structure like Artist / Albumname
instead of default Artist - Albumname.
0.5.1 -- updated to use new version of LAME: 3.92.
0.5 -- added ability to edit album information before ripping a cd.
added ability to choose among possible CD's if freedb returns a list of
possible matches.
NMP3 Ripper now displays an estimate of how much time is left per track
while ripping. It updates periodically.
remembered how to do alpha masks with icon builder. ;)
various small internal changes that are too tedious to list here.
0.4.3 -- minimum window size now enforced.
bugfix in album title parsing.
added an icon. Finally.
source released
0.4.2 -- fixed issue with certain preferences getting overwritten
(though previous versions will get overwritten one last time with this update.
sorry!).
fixed issue with help documentation.
Output To: field and processing: field now expand if you grow/shrink
the main window.
NMP3 now sounds an alert when it finishes ripping. (you can turn this
off in preferences).
text fields are now disabled during ripping.
0.4.1 -- fixed a bug dealing with id3 tag generation.
0.4 -- added "expert" encoding field for those of you familiar with lame
command line options.
added ability to select what tracks to rip, instead of the whole CD all
at once.
updated to lame v3.91 (fixed a bug with --alt-preset fast standard).
added option for "fast" alt-preset encoding.
"Output To:" field now updates to correct directory before ripping.
More and better documentation.
0.3.5 -- NMP3 Ripper now keeps track of all preferences.
0.3 -- mp3 file naming options, more options, more documentation,
stupid bug fixes.
0.2 -- freedb, id3 tag support added, ability to skip tracks while
encoding added.
0.1 -- initial public release.
louie
[email protected]
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