
Now the ARM has been rewritten in Python and has a number of options to customize the way different people handle media. Since then quite a few contributors have made many improvements. I uploaded the scripts to GitHub under the MIT license. Can send push notifications to your phone using Pushbullet or IFTT.The only interaction is inserting the disc and it takes it from there, ejecting it when done. Completely headless design–no graphical interface.Can rip from multiple optical drives simultaneously.If audio CD – rip to mp3 or flac using abcde and eject.When done transcoding tell Emby to rescan library, or send notifications using PushBullet or IFTT.Send rip to Handbrake and eject disc asynchronously.Determines if disc is Video, Data, or Audio.Once it completes a rip it ejects the disc for you and you can pop in another one. It runs on Linux, it’s completely headless and fully automatic requiring no interaction or manual input to complete its tasks (other than inserting the disk).


Once the beta period ends, only the DVD-ripping will be free.The A.R.M.

The Blu-ray ripping functionality is only free while the software is in beta so grab it while you can. MakeMKV is available now for free while in beta. If space is a concern, or you want to put a copy on your Apple TV, it's possible to use previously-mentioned Handbrake or Video Monkey to transcode into a lower quality (but still excellent) file.

While this is useful for those of you with a farm of terabyte-sized drives at your disposal, for others, a lower quality backup is acceptable. Macworld's test resulted in a file nearly 32 GB in size as compared to the original 35 GB on the physical BD. This is currently a bit of a novelty in most Macs being that Steve Jobs considers the whole thing a " bag of hurt." However, if your system meets the hardware requirements, you're ready to go off on your first Blu-ray ripping journey without the typical mess involved. You know that it's possible to backup your CDs with iTunes and your DVDs with Handbrake, but what about that new Blu-ray disc (BD) you just received during the holidays? Macworld has a good write-up of a beta utility called MakeMKV that will rip both DVDs and BDs to perfect quality MKV format.īear in mind that this will require having a connected or internal Blu-ray drive that can read said discs.
