Rip + Flac encoder for mac osx ?

[Vince]

Hi,
Does someone know a software allowing under mac osx rip of cd with
cddb and encoding with correct tags in flac format ? as I found nothing
really correct. I found some rip software but I need to enter manually
infos of tracks
Thanks for your help

Vincèn
Domedia

[Phil Karn]

Vince wrote:
> Hi,
> Does someone know a software allowing under mac osx rip of cd with
> cddb and encoding with correct tags in flac format ? as I found nothing
> really correct. I found some rip software but I need to enter manually
> infos of tracks

I ripped my library into FLAC with "abcde" on Debian Linux. It
automatically queries freedb and adds the appropriate tags after giving
you a chance to edit them.

Since abcde is open source, it could probably port to OS X without too
much trouble.

Phil

[Vince]

>> Does someone know a software allowing under mac osx rip of cd
>> with cddb and encoding with correct tags in flac format ? as I found
>> nothing really correct. I found some rip software but I need to enter
>> manually infos of tracks
>
> I ripped my library into FLAC with "abcde" on Debian Linux. It
> automatically queries freedb and adds the appropriate tags after
> giving you a chance to edit them.
> Since abcde is open source, it could probably port to OS X without too
> much trouble.

Well I know abcde but it's pretty dependant on Linux so port is not so
easy I should look into something else but thanks nevertheless for
your suggestion

Vincèn

[Steven Spies]

Vince, I know of only two GUI rip, tag & encode to FLAC programs for
the Mac. The first is MARS (Mindawn Audio Ripping Software) available
at:
http://www.mindawn.com/download.php
It is very slow but it does work and it is a complete package. The
second is PureMusic Audio Player available at:
http://homepage.mac.com/steve_bryan/Personal12.html
This one is primarily a audio player but it does have the ability to
rip, tag & encode to FLAC if you have the FLAC libraries installed on
your system. If you don't you will need to "./configure, make, sudo
make install" the FLAC source code available from:
http://flac.sourceforge.net/download.html
Both of these programs are very early in their development but show
promise. There is some talk of adding rip, tag & encode ability to
xACT on the xACT forum at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/xACT-users/
but for now you would have to tag manually if you were to use it. I
was hoping someone would figure out a way to add FLAC ability to
iTunes like the excellent iTunes-LAME Encoder available at:
http://blacktree.com/apps/iTunes-LAME/
but the only thing I was able to come up with was to rip in iTunes to
AIFF, extract the tag information with MP3Rage available at:
http://www.chaoticsoftware.com/Produ...s/MP3Rage.html
and write a simple script to encode the AIFF to FLAC using the tag
information from MP3Rage. Not exactly Mac like! Anyway, give them a
try and let us know what you think and be sure to let us know if you
find anything else that works, Steven

On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 11:23:52 +0100, Vince <mailing (AT) vincen (DOT) org> wrote:
> >> Does someone know a software allowing under mac osx rip of cd
> >> with cddb and encoding with correct tags in flac format ? as I found
> >> nothing really correct. I found some rip software but I need to enter
> >> manually infos of tracks
> >
> > I ripped my library into FLAC with "abcde" on Debian Linux. It
> > automatically queries freedb and adds the appropriate tags after
> > giving you a chance to edit them.
> > Since abcde is open source, it could probably port to OS X without too
> > much trouble.
>
> Well I know abcde but it's pretty dependant on Linux so port is not so
> easy I should look into something else but thanks nevertheless for
> your suggestion
>
> Vincèn
>
>

[Phil Karn]

Vince wrote:

> Well I know abcde but it's pretty dependant on Linux so port is not so
> easy I should look into something else but thanks nevertheless for
> your suggestion

Well, what can I say? Everybody should have a Linux box around even if
your primary desktop is OSX (as in my case). :-)

Seriously, although I haven't done it, I don't know why abcde should be
impossible to port to OSX. It's a shell script, and it calls cdparanoia
to do the actual ripping, cddb-tool to query the database and flac to do
the flac encoding. It can also call the usual bunch of other codecs if
desired. It's about the most complete ripper I've found, which is why I
used it.

Phil