Favorite ripping tool?

hgomersall · Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2003 11:41 am Post subject:

abcde (a better CD encoder) is a piece of piss to use. I recommend it.

vbenares · Apprentice Joined: 13 Aug 2003 Posts: 205

Has anyone gotten Grip (or Gnome's CD player for that matter) to play the ripped tracks? Any suggestions?

Thanks.

curious_bob · Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2004 8:51 pm Post subject: ripping cds?

What is a good cd ripper to use? Does XMMS have a cd-rip plugin?

gareth · Apprentice Joined: 15 Nov 2003 Posts: 234 Location: UK

Have a look at 'grip'. It's GNOME based, so if you're a KDE user, expect a long emerge :wink:

Vanquirius · Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2004 9:24 pm Post subject:

I have had good experience with media-sound/ripperx.
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Tamerz · Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2004 7:54 pm Post subject: Better ripper than GRIP?

I was wondering if there is a CD ripper that converts to MP3's on the fly like Musicmatch does. Instead of ripping WAV's then converting the files. Not like it's a big deal it has to do that but Musicmatch rips SO much faster and if I have a lot to rip it really helps.

huw · Apprentice Joined: 13 May 2002 Posts: 220 Location: UK

GRIP is just a GUI, the ripping will either be done by cdparanoia (slower, better error correction) or cdda2wav (faster, might get noises in mp3s if the CD is a bit scratched). Conversion from wav->mp3 could be by a lot of programes, but LAME is one of the more popular choices.

Whether you can pipe the output of cdparanoia into LAME is another matter and I suspect this will be dependent on what is the rate limiting process. I haven't got an audio CD handy so can't check this at the mo.

dizzogg · Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2004 8:54 pm Post subject:

by my experience, Sound juicer is probably the best gui ripper/encoder around, if you prefer command line, try abcde

neverborn · n00b Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 46

i prefer cdmp3, which comes with cdogg, which is quite nice

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ogre2112 · Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2004 3:38 am Post subject:

I've been happy with ripperx.
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sevec · n00b Joined: 02 Jan 2004 Posts: 47

i've found that if i have a lot to rip grip is very good.
ie. if you set max unencoded wavs to some big number when the ripping of the wavs ends you are ready to insert the next cd and start ripping.
it will rip the waves and start encding when the previous finishes.
then you can of course insert an other.
one thing that needs care though is not to change some (best none) of its options while you are doing this as it will read them before encoding/riping the next track. so if ie you change the wav name it will search on the next encode for a different file name and ugly things will happen (maybe this is fixed in later versions, had it happen to me quite a while ago.)
hope i have been helpful and not more confusing...

jlanza · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 27 Aug 2003 Posts: 109

I was wondering what everyone uses in linux to rip cds, and what the community thinks as the best cd ripping program?

Malakin · Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2004 3:18 am Post subject:

If you want something simple that works well with the default settings kaudiocreator is good.

quiconque · Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2004 3:56 am Post subject:

When I'm feeling graphical, grip. Otherwise, cdparanoia or cdda2wav.

Evil Dark Archon · Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2004 4:44 am Post subject:

konqueror (use audiocd:/?device=(insert name of cd drive here)) you can configure it in the audio cd section of the control center.
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manywele · l33t Joined: 12 Jul 2003 Posts: 739 Location: Inside

The aptly named command line utility rip which has lots of nifty options.

joem · Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2004 6:04 am Post subject:

If you don't need many extra or very specific options and you are a fan of the gnome desktop, I would recomend sound-juicer. It is very easy to use and good for basic burning needs.

Given M. Sur · Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2004 6:07 am Post subject:

I use Arson. I like it, but I haven't "shopped around," so I don't have any opinions of any others.

I've actually been thinking of trying another one, so I'm going to be keeping an eye on this thread.
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Arker · Apprentice Joined: 10 Sep 2002 Posts: 205

emerge -s sound-juicer

Regor · Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2004 10:13 am Post subject:

Nothing but plain old cdparanoia for me.

If you want a nice cli ripping/encoding frontend check out media-sound/abcde. It does cddb lookup, ripping, encoding, and tagging all off one command.
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micmac · l33t Joined: 28 Nov 2003 Posts: 996

I agree with Regor. abcde is the best app for audio cd to ogg/mp3 conversion I've ever seen. Because:

- works in the shell; I love the shell
- easy to use
- fast; as fast as it gets using cdparanoia and lame/oggenc
- normalizes the wav's; great for audio collections
- it does what it is told

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stgreek · Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2004 6:31 pm Post subject:

I've been using ripperX. Nice,easy and does the job very well. I've heard grip or abcde are much better when ripping many cds though.
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golloza · Guru Joined: 14 Mar 2004 Posts: 427

I use abcde.
It is a shell script that glues together cdparanoia and oggenc (or an other encoder, e.g. lame) and can involve CDDB.

Pretty easy to use

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I'm coming from a windows world when it comes to ripping tracks from a music CD and converting them into MP3s, obtaining track info along the way (Album/Artist/Song Title/etc.).

Are there any good, intuitive GUI programs that will do these things in one shot for me, allowing me to set the type and quality for the final file?

I understand that they'll probably use a command-line app for the actual work, and that's fine, as long as the GUI hides the command-line paramaters that are passed to them.

Thanks!