vlorb - a Audio CD to high quality audio file encoder.
vlorb is a console frontend for cdparanoia and CDDB. The aim of vlorb is to
create high-quality audio files in a simple and effective way, while providing
a comfortable feature set.
vlorb uses CDDB to get CD information for tagging and file naming.
vlorb is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public
License. The COPYING file (part of the download tarball) contains a
copy of it.
Besides the pages below, you can also read the vlorb manpage, ChangeLog and README.
Menu
Planned for the next version (2.0)
- Rewritten in Python
- CDDB entry choice (in case of multiple entries) (already implemented)
- CDDB caching support (already implemented)
- Clearer configuration format (probably INI format since it's well supported in Python and that's currently implemented)
- Encoder and ripper independence, adding encoders and/or rippers is a matter of adding 3 lines to the configuration file (already implemented_
- Object Oriented (part of the rewrite) so that the code becomes more managable (already implemented)
- whatever else i can think of
NOTE: i was planning on adding tag editing, but as i can never make it as nice
as something like EasyTAG, i dropped the idea.
News
- 2004/09/14 Status update: OK ok, it's been a while and I suck :) That said, development IS going on. After discovering the perl OO code for vlorb was becoming spaghetti code, i took some time to research other languages, mainly Python and Ruby. Eventually, i've chosen for Python, and rewritten vlorb in it. I hope to start releasing alpha's or pre-release versions soon. Vapourware rulez
- 2003/12/30 Status update: i have a new job far away from where i live, and i don't have a computer where i stay yet, so don't expect updates for a while. A lot still has to be done.
- 2003/08/21 new snapshot. Multiple CDDB entry support (about all credit goes to Bas Kok, his patch just needed a tiny bit of hacking) and Ripdir support (place rips in the specified dir)
- 2003/08/03 BUGFIX, vlorb 1.2 did not properly escape ` characters. Check download
- 2003/08/01 Thanks to Bas Kok, we now have Debian packages!
- 2003/07/24 vlorb-1.2 is finally released! Sorry it took so long :P
- 2003/07/18 vlorb-1.2pre1 released. Please test and report bugs! Check ChangeLog, README and download
- 2003/05/28 Development of the vlorb 1.2 is taking shape. FLAC support, device and apps auto-detection, and more to come (possibly an interactive option, and perhaps editing tags before vlorbing + submitting the info to freedb). It'll take a while though :)
- 2003/05/28 BUGFIX, vlorb 1.1 did not handle unknown cd's correctly. Check download
- 2003/05/13 vlorb-1.1 released! Get it while it's hot
- 2003/05/13 vlorb-1.1pre2 released
- 2003/04/08 vlorb-1.0 released. Check README for info/release
notes, etc
- 2003/03/29 vlorb-1.0pre10 released. Stupid typo in vlorb
- 2003/03/29 vlorb-1.0pre9 announced on Freshmeat
- 2003/03/29 vlorb-1.0pre9 released. Makefile improvements, manpage
improvements, double/single quote polish
- 2003/03/29 vlorb-1.0pre8 is the first publically made available
version of vlorb. Please check the download section
