Ripping entire library.

[Eric Gauthier]

I have to reconfirm Grip. I too have run it in KDE

Has a nice feature of "batch", it spits out the old CD, you put in the next
one, and it continues. No user interaction required. Great for headless
operation.

-Eric

>-----Original Message-----
>From: discuss-bounces (AT) lists (DOT) slimdevices.com
>[mailto:discuss-bounces (AT) lists (DOT) slimdevices.com] On Behalf Of
>Jeff Blasius
>Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 3:11 PM
>To: Slim Devices Discussion
>Subject: [slim] Ripping entire library.
>
>
>I use grip http://nostatic.org/grip/ . It's great and can run
>in kde. -jeff
>
>
>Bryce Richards wrote:
>
>>Thanks Jason & Scott for your replies!
>>
>>Jason, I had'nt heard of Hydrogen Audio before.
>>
>>Scott, I'll be trying out LVM on my 200 gb drive.
>>
>>Here's my immediate need:
>>
>>on kde 3.2 k3b no longer encodes flac. I complied k3b from source.
>>Still no good. Does anybody know of any problems with the
>flac or lame
>>encoders? Neither work.
>>
>>Can anybody recommend a flac encoder with a graphical front
>end on KDE?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Bryce.
>>
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Jason Holtzapple" <jasonholtzapple (AT) yahoo (DOT) com>
>>To: "Slim Devices Discussion" <discuss (AT) lists (DOT) slimdevices.com>
>>Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 4:15 PM
>>Subject: [slim] Ripping entire library.
>>
>>
>>--- Bryce Richards <bryce.richards (AT) partingline (DOT) com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Hello Everyone,
>>>
>>>
>>
>>Hello!
>>
>>
>>
>>>2. I've got a new 200 gb drive to put my tunes on. What
>file system
>>>is
>>>
>>>
>>best
>>
>>
>>>for music? Which inode size? Should I put some swap at the
>beginning
>>>of
>>>
>>>
>>a
>>
>>
>>>disk that will be all data?
>>>
>>>
>>
>>I don't have a recommendation on which file system to use. Most of my
>>friends use ext3 or xfs and avoid reiserfs for their large music
>>libraries.
>>
>>You'll want to drop your default inode size way down. I'm not sure if
>>there is a bottom limit on the Linux file systems, but on
>NetBSD ffs, I
>>hit some sort of minimum limit on inodes and still ended up
>with almost
>>200,000 on my large disks. You might also want to reduce your
>reserved
>>space (-m in newfs) from the default down to about 1%.
>>
>>You don't need a swap partition.
>>
>>
>>
>>>3. Is there a documented How-To/Procedure that anybody can
>recommend
>>>for ripping my entire collection of cds? I want to use the highest
>>>quality stream possible. Flac? Is there a format for ripping that
>>>will ensure that artist/album metadata works
>properly/seamlessly with
>>>the slimserver?
>>>
>>>
>>
>>There's lots of advice over in the forums at
>>http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/ regarding ripping and tagging
>automation
>>- much more detail than I could go into here. Linux
>automation tends to
>>center around Grip.
>>
>>For highest quality, I would choose flac with quality 8 (if
>you have a
>>fast
>>processor) or quality 6 (for slower machines). If you would like to go
>>the high-quality mp3 route, use lame version 3.90.3 or 3.93.1 with the
>>--alt-preset standard or extreme settings.
>>
>>Good luck!
>>--Jason
>>
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