Grip is a CD player and CD ripper for the GNOME desktop. It provides the ripping capabilities of cdparanoia built in. However, it can also use external rippers such as, cdda2wav. Grip also provides an automated front-end for MP3 encoders (presets for lame, bladeenc, l3enc, xingmp3enc, mp3encode, and gogo), allowing you take a disc and transform it easily straight into MP3s.

The Ogg Vorbis format is also supported by Grip. It supports Internet disc lookups for retrieving track information from disc database servers. Grip works with DigitalDJ to provide a unified, "computerized" version of your music collection.

Grip is a feature rich media software, comes with a large number of features. It functions as a full-featured CD player, in which tracks can be selected by clicking on them with single mouse-click. Double mouse-click selects the track as well as begins playing it. Apart from playing CD, Grip is designed for ripping CDs and creating the encoded version of the tracks.
Grip also offers some other advantageous features:
· Database lookup/submission to share track information over the net
· HTTP proxy support for those behind firewalls
· Loop, shuffle, and playlist modes
· Ripping of single, multiple, or partial tracks
· Encoding of ripped .wav files into MP3 files (as well support for OGG and FLAC)
· Support for multiple encode processes on SMP machines
· Adding ID3v1/v2 tags to MP3 files
· Cooperating with DigitalDJ, my SQL-based MP3 jukebox

Grip is open source free software, comes under the terms and conditions of GNU General Public License. It is modified and redistributed under the GNU license version 2 or later.