Ripping CDs

Figure 1. The ripping interface

There are number of buttons in the interface under the "Rip" tab. They function as follows:

In the bottom portion of the interface, Grip displays progress bars for the rip and encode processes. It also computes the speed of the processes as a function of normal playback speed (so 2.0x, for example, means that processing is running twice as fast as normal playback, on average). In addition, if Grip is using builtin cdparanoia to rip, there will be a "smilie" indicator next to the progress bar that reflects how much trouble Grip is having ripping the CD. The meaning of the different smiles are as follows:

Grip also places an indicator for both ripping and encoding the the LCD display. They show progress in %25 intervals, as can be seen in this example of Grip in "small" mode. In this case, we are almost finished ripping a track, and have encoded about a quarter of a track.

Figure 2. Ripping in "small" mode