RipDoctor

RipDoctor

Rip a side

A file you already have — a download, or a capture made somewhere else. It becomes side a of this record, and every step after that is the same as a rip.

Punch a track

One track came out dirty — a skip, a click, a passage the stylus fought. Re-record just that track and swap it into the library. The boundaries are fitted against the archived side, so the replacement starts and ends exactly where the original did.

Drop the needle a few seconds before the track and lift it after — the fit needs music on both sides of it. Recording uses the capture controls on the right, and Stop & encode ends it like any other capture.

Replacing moves the old file and the punch capture into archive/<album>/_punched/. Nothing is deleted.

0:00.00

The 1–3 kHz bar is the one to watch. Arm-up handling rumble is loud full-band but dead in this band; silent groove is quiet in both; music is loud in both. Drop the needle when the band bar sits in the groove zone, not below it.

Nothing chosen yet

Anything ffmpeg can read. It is re-encoded to FLAC on the way in and checked that it decodes before it becomes a side — and a lossy source stays lossy, so this does not improve a download. Boundaries are found and checked by ear afterwards, in Cut.

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Keyboard

spaceplay / pause from the playhead (or 3 s before the selected marker)
Aaudition the selected marker — plays across it with a 1400 Hz tick landing exactly on it
← →nudge the selected marker 0.05 s (shift for 0.5 s)
Ssplit the track under the playhead — snaps to the gap edges if the playhead is inside a detected silence
F / 0zoom to the whole side
Zzoom to the selected track
escstop playback
clickset the playhead — and seek there if audio is playing
dragon a marker moves it; on the background pans
wheelzoom about the cursor
stripthe bar under the waveform is the whole side — click or drag to jump

First pass

Looks up the release, splits the tracklist across every side by duration, and fits boundaries to the measured gaps. This replaces the plan for the whole album, not just the side you are viewing.


    

  

  
    

      
Import to library

      
Moves the cut tracks out of review/ into the
        library, tagged from the plan you saved. The release below is the one it
        will match against; the transcript afterwards says what it did.

      
      

        No release is pinned, so the catalogue is skipped.
        
The tracks are tagged from the saved plan — its
          titles, numbers, artist, album and date — and filed under those
          names without being matched against anything. This is the way in for a
          record MusicBrainz does not have. Cover art is not fetched; the panel
          after the import offers it. To match instead, search below and pick a
          release.

      

      

        
        
        
      

      

      

        That release has a different tracklist to the one this cut was named from.
        
Re-labelling applies the new release's titles, numbers and
          catalogue lengths to the tracks you already cut, and re-pins the release
          id. No boundary moves. Use this when the LP carries tracks the
          release picked in First pass did not — running First pass again
          would instead refit every edge from scratch.

        

        
      

      

        beets has rows for this album, but the files are gone.
        
They were deleted outside beets. It still counts them,
          treats this import as a duplicate and stops part-way. Clearing removes
          database rows only — never files, and it refuses unless every
          file it names is confirmed absent.

        

        
      

      

        This album is already in the library.
        
Importing writes into that same directory, so a track
          with the same name is overwritten. Nothing is deleted, and nothing
          else in the directory is touched. The import stays disabled until
          this is ticked.

        

        
      

      

        
        
        
      

      

      

        
Imported

        

        

          This album went into the library with no cover art.
          
A player set to read embedded art shows nothing
            until a picture is written into every track, and embedding is what
            survives a file being moved.

          

          

            
            
            
          

          

        

        
Whatever watches the library will see it. The raw sides are
          still in raw/ and the cut files have moved out of
          review/ — archiving puts the sides safely away and
          clears the working copies.

      

      
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About to stop — is this still the record?

    
The 1–3 kHz level has been  dB
      under the music for , which normally means the
      run-out. If this is a quiet passage, say so and the clock restarts.

    
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Archive rip

      
Puts the raw sides in archive/ — re-encoding any
        that are truncated, since a capture ended with Ctrl-C is not a valid FLAC —
        verifies every one, and only then removes raw/, the review
        folder and the analysis cache. Nothing in archive/ is ever
        deleted: the raw sides are what make a re-split possible without
        playing the record again.

      

      

        
        
      

      

    

  

  

    

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Album

      
      
      
      
What you type here is what gets written —
        it overrides the release title, qualifiers and all.

      
Cover art

      
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Finished tracks

      
nothing cut yet

    

  

  

    

      console
      raw output from the pipeline tools — the finished-tracks
        list is read back from review/, so the two disagreeing is the signal