Grip User's Guide
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# First Asked Questions

- Q: When I try to rip a track, I get X I/O errors. What gives?

  A: This seems to be a problem with non-thread-safe systems. Make sure your system is safe for threads. This often seems to be associated with libc5.

- Q: I just get a message saying that the program can't access my drive. This makes it hard to do much. Help!

  A: Your user account must have access to the cdrom device.

- Q: I can play cd's fine, but my ripper can't access the drive. Why not?

  A: On scsi systems, rippers (cdparanoia, at least) need access to the generic scsi device as well.

- Q: The progress bar doesn't seem to be completely accurate when encoding. Why can't it get it right?

  A: The progress bar is done based on the size of the output file. If you have the kbits/sec set properly, Grip should estimate the size properly. Note that if you use variable bitrate encoding (supported by encoders like LAME and xing) Grip has no way to accurately guess the file size.

- Q: When I try to rip, Grip skips some of the tracks I have selected. That's not nice -- how can I make it stop?

  A: Some drives (particularly some dvd drives) take a while to spin up, and get confused if ripping starts before they are ready. Try enabling the "Delay before ripping" setting in the Section called The "Rip" config tab in the chapter called Configuring Grip.

- Q: When I encode tracks, the progress bar never does anything. What happened to progress?

  A: If your encoder doesn't accept an output filename (like BladeEnc), or you haven't passed it one on the command-line, then it might not be outputting to the file Grip expects. Make sure that your encoded file format is set to what your encoder is actually producing.

- Q: When Grip looks up disc information, it works, but says "Error saving disc data". Why?

  A: Grip saves local copies of disc track information in the directory "~/.cddb". It must be able to create or access this directory.

- Q: How come I don't get any scrollbars in the track display?

  A: You are using a version of Grip compiled for gtk+ v1.0.x on a system that has gtk+ v1.2.x installed. You need to either get a binary compiled for the development series of gtk+, or compile Grip yourself.

- Q: When my buddy runs Grip, he gets those nifty LCD icons showing rip/encode/DiscDB status, but I don't. What makes him so special?

  A: He's using a more recent version of gtk+ than you are. Due to bugs in gtk+ v1.0.x, I don't support the icons under it. Upgrade your gtk+!

- Q: I can't get Grip to rip any tracks! This makes it less than useful...

  A: Grip won't rip tracks unless you tell it what to rip. Use the right mouse button to select tracks for ripping.

- Q: I was listening to a CD in Grip and it sounded horrible! What's up?

  A: Perhaps you are listening to country music...

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