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Hello folks. Normally I'm on the other end of questions but this time I'd
like to ask one. Sorry about asking a question soon as I join a group but
I'm rather frustrated at the moment.

I just started recently using Grip because abcde has started to become a
pain to configure and having a GUI ripper would be nice. So I tried Grip.
In general I was impressed.  I like to name my MP3s
artistname-songname.mp3it is a standard that I adopted many years ago
and pretty much the expected
filename for an mp3 nowdays. I have not an OCD bone in my body but for the
listings to show up right in XMMS and when burning custom CDs or looking for
a given song or sorting offline tunes having them in the same format is
pretty much essential.

So my problem is how do I get Grip to format the names like that? I have
tried just inserting a - into the file name and that crashes Grip and it
returns to it's default configuration. Something that is quite agravating.
At the least it should not destroy my previous config but it does. If I add
"-" it leaves the quote marks in the file name.

This is my most recent attempt at inserting a - into the file name and the
result was of course artist'-'track with the 's embedded in the filename.
~/nusnd/%A/%d/%a'-'%n.mp3


My second question is about variable bit encoding.  I like to use variable
encoding, 128 is noticably lower quality, the lowest I like to use is 256,
with variable encoding I get the smaller file sizes with high quality sound
usually.  I'd love to see as a new feature a check box for variable bit
encoding and a box to set the parms for it.  I can do this in the lame
command parms but I'm not sure if Grip will override this with a new -b
option or if Lame will just plain get confused. Same with Bladenc, either
one I'm comfortable using.

As for ogg files, the default for Grip, there is no real support for them
with CD players right now. I often play my CDs on boomboxes and on portable
CD players, almost all of which today support MP3. Likewise most windoze
users wouldn't know what to do with an Ogg file so I stick with the MP3
standard for now. If I was playing them purely on XMMS or similer software
I'd prob convert to ogg files.

I love the GUI on Grip though and in general very impressed. If not I'd just
go through the trouble of figuring out why abcde won't tag the files and
other misc problems in software that used to work great out of the box. Only
thing I used to change from abcde defaults was to use variable bit encoding
and a couple small tweaks to the outputed file name.

In case there are developers reading this.  OS is Fedora core 3, Grip
version 3.2.0 GTK version
gtkspell-2.0.7-2
gtksourceview-1.1.0-4.fc3
gtk2-2.4.14-4.fc3.3
usermode-gtk-1.74-1
gtkhtml3-3.3.2-3
pygtk2-2.4.1-fc3.1
gtkhtml2-2.6.2-1
gtk+-1.2.10-33
gtk2-engines-2.2.0-6
gtk2-devel-2.4.14-4.fc3.3
gtk-doc-1.2-2
pygtk2-devel-2.4.1-fc3.1
gnome-python2-gtkhtml2-2.6.0-3
gtk-engines-0.12-5
pygtk2-libglade-2.4.1-fc3.1
gtkmathview-0.7.6-1.fc3