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Request for Portable CD Ripper app: Grip

Submitted by eljefedelito on November 14, 2006 - 10:51am

I find myself often wanting to rip a CD into MP3 format and the machine that I am at only has iTunes or Windows Media Player, both of which I don't trust to rip CDs well (nor in a useful format).

If Grip can run as a Portable App (using Lame for MP3s and Vorbis for oggs) and save the resulting mp3 files onto the root of the Portable Device, life would be grand!

Can Power Desk be made portable?...

Submitted by Preacher on November 13, 2006 - 5:29pm

Well, Mijenix's-->Ontrack's-->Kroll's-->now V-com's/Avanquest's "PowerDesk" is the best File Mgr/Windows "Explorer" substitute that I've ever seen or used, bar none.
Link:
http://www.v-com.com/download/download_free.html

Anyway, if the free version is installed, and then the directory burned to a CD (haven't tried it yet on a memory stick, but expect results'd be similar), it's pretty darn usable as it is.
However, a fraction of the time, it will complain about not having some library file it needs, and it will then go on to work once you click "OK". - but it will then bring up the same message every time you change directories with it. Quite annoying.

How's about making CDB-XP Pro portable?...

Submitted by Preacher on November 13, 2006 - 5:09pm

The thread title sez it all.
What are the possibilities, folks, of y'all coming up with a version of CD Burner XP Pro (the free version, natch) that is "portable"?...
I asked this question on the application site's board, but got this response:

"Well, I think currently we are not. But once a new version is released, this may change"

My response to this was to say:
"Well, given that the next versions are going to be for ".NET", how is that do-able?...
I mean, I'm not a programmer, but it seems like the best way to make any app portable is to use the simplest available version of the proggy to work with. And, if only a .NET version is made portable, it won't be all that, er...."portable", since it likely would require the machine it's used on to have.NET enabled - and no one I know personally cares that much for .NET in the first place."

Portable GWhere

Submitted by bastya_elvtars on November 13, 2006 - 4:11pm

GWhere allows you to manage a catalog of your CDs and any other removable media (such as hard disks, floppy disks, Zip disks, CD-ROMs, etc...) indexed in a database. With GWhere it is easy to browse your CDs or to make a quick search without needing to insert each CD one after another.

http://www.gwhere.org/

It is open-source, licensed under the GPL andd really tiny. May be useful for one having many discs and a pendrive. Blum

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