Favorite ripping tool?

kiksen · Guru Joined: 24 Jun 2002 Posts: 401 Location: Denmark

grip?

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ansient · Guru Joined: 22 Jan 2005 Posts: 445 Location: Argentina

Everyone but the die hard gnome fans are going to scream k3b

But before you write off console rippers, have you tried "abcde" ? It's golden.

EnlightedGnome · Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 11:38 am Post subject:

i'll try it out
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EnlightedGnome · Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 12:49 pm Post subject:

hmm that's made for gnome right? will it work equally good in KDE?
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ansient · Guru Joined: 22 Jan 2005 Posts: 445 Location: Argentina

EnlightedGnome · Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 12:54 pm Post subject:

okay i'll try some different programs... is abcde available as a portage?
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Arkham · Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 4:08 pm Post subject:

Also if your computer isn´t fast enough, you could try your search in http://packages.gentoo.org

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codergeek42 · Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 4:41 pm Post subject:

If you're already using KDE I think there's an "audiocd:/" IOslave in Konqueror that will let you simply drag and drop the audio files in various formats to transparently copy them onto your hard disk.
I'm not a KDE person though, so I'm basing that solely on what I've read on these fora...
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jsheedy · Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 8:27 pm Post subject:

I used to use ripperX all the time, actually been awhile since I have ripped a cd though.
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dmartin · Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 10:11 pm Post subject:

I've tried several rippers, and I always end up using K3B. It's simply the best GUI CD Ripper, burner, DVD burner, etc, for Linux, in my *opinion*. This is the only application that keeps me from removing the kde libs from my Gentoo installation.

Jas-Nix · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 05 Feb 2005 Posts: 113

Hello,
I emerged abcde on a headless server and tried to rip from the command line by just typing "abcde" this seemed to work at first, it asked me if I wanted to use the artist and album names it found on cddb, I said yes and then when it started to rip it just sat at ripping track1 to track1.wav. I waited for over an hour and it just sat there. Has anyone seen this before? Does anyone have a solution?

Thanks,

Jas-Nix

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farmorg · Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 10:44 am Post subject:

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csab · Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 5:27 pm Post subject:

Maybe I'm blind or stupid, but I couldn't find out how to rip CD's with k3b. When I click on the CD in the tree, it says "No CDDB entry found." Fine. I don't care about CDDB, and this CD is of a small Hungarian band, so it isn't very likely that it is in the databease anyway. If I go to Configure k3b and uncheck using local and remote CDDB then when I click on the CD in the tree I can see briefly the message "Try to fetch information about the inserted disk" in the status line and then nothing happens.

Note that I use gnome. Maybe KDE has some built in CD ripper that gnome doesn't and k3b fails to show me a warning or error about that.

Can you help me? I don't want to emerge another ripper if I can use k3b to rip CD's.

bertaboy · l33t Joined: 05 Nov 2004 Posts: 604

grip works fine for me. Combine that with oggenc and flac, and I'm all set! Of course, it also helps that I have an iRiver product, so I'm not locked to proprietary formats....

arwing · n00b Joined: 21 Feb 2004 Posts: 61

is there a good gui program to rip to AAC, cddb queries and everything? -- don't get me wrong I love Vorbis and I don't have an iPod or anything, just IMHO AAC >= vorbis and I'd like to try it for my own rips; I have some iTunes addicted friends.

Sardien · n00b Joined: 04 Nov 2004 Posts: 42 Location: South Africa

I use k3b to rip my cds. Works really well for me.

csab: When you click on the your CD-ROM drive in K3b, after it has complained about the CDDB entry does it show the CD's track listing?

AFAIK K3b is configured by default to use cdparanoia which is command line (ie. non-desktoo enviroment specific).

Kind Regards,

Richard

csab · Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2005 9:15 pm Post subject:

yinrunning · Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2005 11:05 pm Post subject: Favorite GUI CD rippers?

Just looking for comments on rippers. I just figured out alsa/sound/cdaudio/xmms and a bunch of other stuff regarding sound today, and I'd like to get some tunes going while I keep configging my system.

The only GUI ripper I can find so far is Grip, and I'm honestly not that impressed. Options seems sketchy and sparse to me. I've looked through every menu and I can't figure out how to burn separate tracks. That seems kind of silly.

I've seem a bunch of references to Arson, which is apparently dead.

Anyone have any suggestions / comments?

yinrunning · Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2005 11:21 pm Post subject:

Ok, so it burns separate tracks by default. *sheepish look* Still looking for something sleeker.

codergeek42 · Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2005 11:23 pm Post subject:

Sound-Juicer (part of GNOME) is quite fantastic. *shrug*
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