Developer(s) Grip developers Written in C | Development status Unmaintained Operating system | |
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Stable release 3.3.1 / June 25, 2005; 11 years ago (2005-06-25) | ||
Grip is a free Compact Disc player and CD ripper within the GNOME project.
The software is rather similar to Audiograbber on Windows - without sound card capture feature; it is fast, light, easy to compile and it does well what it is intended to do.
Grip uses a selection of encoders, including cdparanoia. The current official GNOME ripper is Sound Juicer.
The original author, Mike Oliphant, originally registered Grip as a project at the SourceForge.net free and open-source software website on March 17, 2000, and made pre-compiled binaries for RPM Linux distributions available. However, by mid-2005 development had stalled, and while the software was still very much usable, in effect it languished without a maintainer. In late 2016 a new maintainer, Johnny Solbu, stepped up by forking the project into "Grip 2" based on version 3.3.1 of the original. As of version 3.3.4, no binaries were made available yet.