Feature request and question: Append to Directory

First off, thanks for building this a) in Ruby and b) with a command-line 
front-end.  It saved me the trouble of writing my own replacement for Grip in 
Ruby, and it means that I'll likely be able to fix stuff myself that doesn't 
work the way I want... ;)  My C/GTK+ is *extremely* rusty these days.

1) Please describe the steps to reproduce the situation:
When running the CLI and starting to rip a disc, there are only 2 usable 
options for dealing with the output directory:

  1) Auto rename the output directory
  2) Overwrite the existing directory

2) What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

Why?  Why can't I just add files to an existing directory?  I have over 4,200 
songs in a single directory and that's the way I want to organize them.  
Fortunately, I looked through the code first, but the program shouldn't require 
me to create a separate directory each time I want to rip a disc.

I know I can probably easily fix this myself, but I thought I'd ask why you 
made this design decision.

Also, it doesn't appear that there are good ways to control the location of the 
temporary directory, nor where to put the output m3u file.

3) What version of rubyripper are you using? On what operating system? The
gtk2 of commandline interface?

Installed 0.6.0 today on Ubuntu Karmic server and only built the CLI interface.

6) Please explain why this change is important for you. Also, how many
users would benefit from this change?

You already provide number of ways that the user can configure the way the 
files are actually created on the server.  I'm evaluating this as a long-time 
grip user (I don't even remember how long now), and I'm trying to integrate 
your software into ongoing maintenance of my personal music library.  My main 
goal here is not to have to change the way I organize things to suit software 
(if I didn't care, I'd just let iTunes rip things for me... ;).

Please provide any additional information below. The more usefull
information provided, the sooner the issue will be fixed.

I'm not in the position to submit a patch for this at the moment, but I need to 
rip 6 new CD's today, and copying files around post-rip is fairly annoying.  If 
I get finished with other things, I might have a look.

Again, thanks for the software.  Hopefully, a brilliant addition to the kit bag!

Cheers,

ast
Original issue reported on code.google.com by a...@atownley.org on 1 Oct 2010 at 10:57
gco / rubyripper

Feature request and question: Append to Directory #447
