<s>
ripit	B-Application
is	O
a	O
Linux	B-Application
command-line	B-Application
CD	O
ripper	O
originally	O
developed	O
by	O
Simon	O
Quinn	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
is	O
a	O
Perl	B-Language
script	O
which	O
can	O
create	O
flac	B-Application
,	O
ogg	O
,	O
mp3	B-Application
,	O
m4a	O
(	O
aac	O
)	O
,	O
als	B-Algorithm
(	O
mp4	O
)	O
,	O
mpc	B-Algorithm
,	O
wv	B-Application
or	O
other	O
files	O
from	O
an	O
audio	O
CD	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
has	O
many	O
options	O
but	O
can	O
be	O
used	O
successfully	O
without	O
them	O
,	O
making	O
the	O
program	O
easier	O
to	O
use	O
than	O
the	O
underlying	O
or	O
other	O
command-line	B-Application
programs	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Ripit	B-Application
requires	O
perl	B-Language
,	O
a	O
ripping	O
program	O
such	O
as	O
cdparanoia	B-Application
,	O
an	O
encoder	O
such	O
as	O
vorbis-tools	O
for	O
encoding	O
the	O
wav	O
files	O
to	O
a	O
compressed	O
format	O
,	O
a	O
module	O
for	O
CDDB	O
retrieval	O
,	O
and	O
a	O
few	O
libraries	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Many	O
popular	O
Linux	B-Application
distributions	I-Application
include	O
ripit	B-Application
.	O
</s>
