Linux Rippers/Encoders

[chiphart]

Presently (using Fedora 3), I use grip to rip/encode all of my music, but I'm finding the process quite frustrating. In particular, it often cuts off tag information for files with long artist or track names (and it does a lot of little things that annoy me).

What Linux-based rippers/encoders are people using? Obviously, I prefer something that will gather tags for me, which I can't see a CLI doing efficiently, but maybe I'm wrong. I've tried soundjuicer, but that forced everything into 128-level, iirc, which wasn't going to cut it.

Any help appreciated.

[shermoid]

i have had excellent luck using "abcde", a shell script included with the flac package on debian distributions - perhaps it is also included in other linux distribs as well.

abcde calls three other programs: cd-discid, cdparanoia and flac.

cd-discid grabs the cd's id, and goes to the 'net (to cddb), where it finds title and track information.

cdparanoia rips the tracks to .wav files

flac encodes the .wav file into a .flac file, and tags the file with the title and track info retreieved from cddb.

i have not seen any problems with string lengths, missing tags, or anything else like that. so far, flawless operation!

hope this helps. all these programs are available on the net, so just go and get them!

best,
-sherman

[kevin]

I'd have to agree with shermoid here.

I've also had very good luck with abcde. Originally found out about it on freshmeat...

[chiphart]

Well, I've grabbed abcde and it's...OK. That is, I can see that it does some things really well, but what is that editor, for chrissakes? I'm a big fan of using a CLI, but if I have to use something other than vi...[insert flame war here]. Still, I'm trying it out and I'll see if I can get used to.

Any additional suggestions appreciated! Thanks for the help so far.

[Avi Schwartz]

chiphart wrote:

>Well, I've grabbed abcde and it's...OK. That is, I can see that it does
>some things really well, but what is that editor, for chrissakes? I'm a
>big fan of using a CLI, but if I have to use something other than
>vi...[insert flame war here]. Still, I'm trying it out and I'll see if
>I can get used to.
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>Any additional suggestions appreciated! Thanks for the help so far.
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http://nostatic.org/grip/


That's the one I am using to rip my CDs into flac.


Avi

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Avi Schwartz
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[chiphart]

http://nostatic.org/grip/


That's the one I am using to rip my CDs into flac.



,,,that's the one I'm trying to replace :-)

[Avi Schwartz]

chiphart wrote:

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I see. Well, if you find something better please let me know since that
the best I managed to find so far that allows me to rip to flac and edit
the ogg tags without resorting to using the CLI.


Avi

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[shermoid]

i also was a bit miffed when i saw the EMACS-like editor come up with abcde. so, i fixed it! here's one way to do that:

in the terminal you're running abcde, type:

setenv EDITOR vi

or, if you're a bourne shell user:

export EDITOR='vi'

abcde will now use vi as the editor, rather than EMACS.

with this change, abcde is now completely useful. hope this helps!

best,
-sherm