HOWTO: Install Rubyripper on Ubuntu

[ghindo]

HOWTO: Install Rubyripper on Ubuntu

Note: These instructions are aimed at Ubuntu 10.04 and above. Results on other Ubuntu releases may vary.

What is Rubyripper?
From the HydrogenAudio wiki:

Rubyripper is a digital audio extraction algorithm that uses cdparanoia in a sophisticated way to make sure that a CD rip is done successfully and accurately.

How is Rubyripper different from other CD rippers?
Rubyripper differs from programs like K3b and Sound Juicer because it is much more thorough. Rubyripper rips each audio track at least twice, then compares each rip for differences and attempts to make the most accurate compilation of rips it possibly can. The result? Higher quality, accurate CD rips.

Installation
Unfortunately, Rubyripper isn't yet available in the official Ubuntu repositories. Fortunately, there's a personal package archive (PPA) available which makes installation easy! No more compiling from source!

1. First, open up the terminal. You can do this by looking in the Applications menu, under Accessories.
2. Next, copy the following text into the terminal and hit enter:

   sudo add-apt-repository ppa:aheck/ppa

   This should prompt you for your password.
3. Then, run the following command:

   sudo apt-get update

4. Finally, enter

   sudo apt-get install rubyripper-gtk

And that's it! Rubyripper should now be in the applications Applications menu under Sound & Video.

Uninstallation
If you find you are unhappy with Rubyripper, for whatever reason, uninstalling is a snap.

1. Simply open up the Ubuntu Software Center under the Applications menu.
2. Search for "rubyripper" and press the "remove" button next to the search results. Rubyripper will then uninstall.

Further Resources
For more information, check out the Rubyripper home page or HydrogenAudio wiki.

[ghindo]

Please feel free to leave comments and criticism so I can improve this tutorial

[SenatorKane]

Hello,
I followed the howto step by step and everything works fine until the "make install"

The ouput basicly consists of bunch of line like the one below

/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/gettext/parser/ruby.rb:36: command not found: msgmerge ./locale/po/rr_cli.pot tmp.pot
Failed to merge with ./locale/po/rr_cli.pot - skipping!
Please check new .pot in tmp.pot~

the last ones look like this

install -D rr_lib.rb /usr/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rr_lib.rb
install: Entfernen von „/usr/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rr_lib.rb“ nicht möglich: Permission denied
make: *** [install] Fehler 1

strangely enough starting ruby from applications -> sound&video works, but the buttons are all grey and don't react. Starting ruby from console doesn't work at all.
I'd be gratful for any help you can offer, but please keep it simple

regards

alex

[ghindo]

Did you run "make install" with sudo? The last lines make me think that you don't have sudo permissions...

If you did run

sudo make install

then I would recommend uninstalling Rubyripper and starting over.

[pulsewidth]

This is the second time I've seen someone do a post about Rubyripper in either this forum or a blog, so I thought I'd pass along my experience with this program as well. I've been using it since version 0.4.2 and quite like it, and I seem to recall version 0.5.0 working in 7.10.

I get this when I try to run Rubyripper:

[ernst::interzone::~/build/rubyripper-0.5.0]:-./rubyripper_gtk2.rb 
/home/ernst/build/rubyripper-0.5.0/rr_lib.rb:413:in `open': Not a directory - /home/ernst/.cddb/d90a4011 (Errno::ENOTDIR)
    from /home/ernst/build/rubyripper-0.5.0/rr_lib.rb:413:in `foreach'
    from /home/ernst/build/rubyripper-0.5.0/rr_lib.rb:413:in `searchLocal'
    from /home/ernst/build/rubyripper-0.5.0/rr_lib.rb:411:in `foreach'
    from /home/ernst/build/rubyripper-0.5.0/rr_lib.rb:411:in `searchLocal'
    from /home/ernst/build/rubyripper-0.5.0/rr_lib.rb:396:in `get_disc_info'
    from /home/ernst/build/rubyripper-0.5.0/rr_lib.rb:378:in `freedb'
    from ./rubyripper_gtk2.rb:176:in `scan_drive'
    from ./rubyripper_gtk2.rb:165:in `initialize'
    from ./rubyripper_gtk2.rb:165:in `new'
    from ./rubyripper_gtk2.rb:165:in `scan_drive'
    from ./rubyripper_gtk2.rb:67:in `initialize'
    from ./rubyripper_gtk2.rb:1082:in `new'
    from ./rubyripper_gtk2.rb:1082

and Rubyripper crashes. There was a patch available at the Rubyripper Google Code site, but it esseitially broke the Freedb search, necessitating manual title entry.

Version 0.4.4 of Rubyripper works just fine in 8.04. Hopefully the developer, or someone who knows Ruby, sorts this out.

[ghindo]

Weird. I wish I could help you out, but I can't decipher any of that. At least 0.4.4 works. Hopefully the next version will work for you.

[ghindo]

Rubyripper 0.5.6 is out:

---------0.5.6 RELEASE------
* fix a problem with cdparanoia and last track on some drives
* implement "abort" button while ripping
* add Bulgarian translation
* support for multiple-disc albums
* some ruby-1.9 syntax fixes
* fix various artist field for other codec
* don't convert to ISO-8859-1 for lame if the character isn't supported
* add an option to replace spaces with underscores
* add an option to lowercase all filenames.
* remove the hardcoded --id3v2only tag

[ghindo]

By the way, is there any way for me to change the title of this thread? It still shows up as "HOWTO: Install Rubyripper 0.5.0 on Ubuntu 8.04" even though I've tried to change it :/

[ghindo]

Rubyripper 0.5.7 is out:

---------0.5.7 RELEASE------
* a fix for discs that start with a data track
* a fix for checking the available space for some languages
* a few fixes for the OpenBSD platform
* fix a typo in the logfile when errors were corrected
* don't replace bracquets in filenames -> []
* fix a typo which resulted in a directory not containing the album name
* allow multiple encoding threads once again

[ghindo]

Looks like there's been some progress upstream in packaging Rubyripper. With any luck, before too long I'll be leaving this guide by the wayside and authoring a new one - HOWTO: Configure and Use Rubyripper