Flatsonar

Grim Ripper

by The Grim Ripper Developers

Create audio files from CDs

Dangerous permissions Verified creator GPL-2.0-only v3.1.2
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About

Grim Ripper is a graphical audio CD ripper. It fetches CD metadata from online databases and compresses the tracks.

Supported codecs: WAV, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, Opus, Wavpack, Musepack, AAC, and Monkey's audio files.

Features:

  • Uses CDDB to name and tag each track.
  • Creates M3U playlists
  • Can encode to multiple formats in one session
  • Simultaneous rip and encode
  • Does not require a specific desktop environment

Permissions

2 permissions weaken the sandbox. Flatsonar asks before installing.

  • all devices (/dev): webcams, disks, raw hardware
    --device=all
  • X11 display: X11 lets apps read input and windows of other apps
    --socket=x11
  • network
    --share=network
  • inter-process communication (needed for X11)
    --share=ipc
  • Wayland display
    --socket=wayland
  • X11 display, only when Wayland is unavailable
    --socket=fallback-x11
  • access to your music folder
    --filesystem=xdg-music

Who publishes this

The creator demonstrably controls this app id: Flathub verification, the hosting account owns the namespace, or a well-known file on their domain.

  • fetches from downloads.sourceforge.net over unencrypted http: anyone on the path can swap the bytes (x2)
    source:insecure-url
  • verified on Flathub: the developer proved they control this app id
    publisher:flathub

Maintenance

Recent activity on the upstream repository, or built and reviewed by Flathub.

No staleness signals: recent activity, or built and reviewed by Flathub.