Grip is a CD player and CD ripper/MP3-encoder for the GNOME desktop. It has the ripping capabilities of cdparanoia built in, but can also use external rippers (such as cdda2wav).

It also provides an automated frontend for MP3 encoders (presets for lame, bladeenc, l3enc, xingmp3enc, mp3encode, and gogo), letting you take a disc and transform it easily straight into MP3s.

The Ogg Vorbis format is also supported. Internet disc lookups are supported for retrieving track information from disc database servers.

Grip works with DigitalDJ to provide a unified, "computerized" version of your music collection.

Here are some key features of "Grip":

· Full-featured CD player with a small screen footprint in "condensed" mode
· Database lookup/submission to share track information over the net
· HTTP proxy support for those behind firewalls
· Loop, shuffle, and playlist modes
· Ripping of single, multiple, or partial tracks
· Encoding of ripped .wav files into MP3 files (as well support for OGG and FLAC)
· Simultaneous rip and encode
· Support for multiple encode processes on SMP machines
· Adding ID3v1/v2 tags to MP3 files
· Cooperating with DigitalDJ, my SQL-based MP3 jukebox

What's New in This Release:

· de.po: updated (G�tz Waschk)
· it.po: updated (Ceoldo Costantino)
· fr.po: updated (Eric Lassauge)
· pl_PL.po: added (Piotr Adamocha)
· id3.c: put a zero byte before the id3v1 track number (Vladimir Petrov)
· discdb.c: string parsing fixes to support i18n (Vladimir Petrov)
· discdb.c: better handling of non-UTF-8 local discdb files (Vladimir Petrov)
· various: tweaks to filesystem-safe character escaping (Vladimir Petrov)
· cdplay.c: allow retrieving of non-UTF-8 discdb entries (Vladimir Petrov)
· discdb.c: fixed a possible buffer overflow crash (Dean Brettle)
· grip.spec.in: added some missing BuildRequires (Stephen E. Dudek)
· configure.in: upped version to 3.3.1