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Whipper has relatively sane defaults, and thus there is not a lot of configuration required. However, there are a few things that you should do before proceeding to rip your own CDs.
Before using whipper to rip a CD, you need to determine two things: the offset of your drive and its caching behavior. The former can be detected by whipper with:
And the latter with:
In older releases of whipper, the second command might be broken on some systems due to this issue. If this is the case for you, consider upgrading whipper to version v0.10.0 or later.
Here's one sensible template for track names, based off of the EAC Guide:
Put these lines in your whipper config file. On Linux, that's
Setup
Before using whipper to rip a CD, you need to determine two things: the offset of your drive and its caching behavior. The former can be detected by whipper with:
whipper offset findAnd the latter with:
whipper drive analyzeIn older releases of whipper, the second command might be broken on some systems due to this issue. If this is the case for you, consider upgrading whipper to version v0.10.0 or later.
Configuration
Here's one sensible template for track names, based off of the EAC Guide:
[whipper.cd.rip]
track_template = %%A - %%d (%%y) [%%X]/%%t - %%n
disc_template = %%A - %%d (%%y) [%%X]/%%A - %%d
Put these lines in your whipper config file. On Linux, that's
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/whipper/whipper.conf. If $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is not defined, whipper falls back to ~/.config/whipper/whipper.conf