Linux CD Ripping

Posted by: Mr Underhill on 22 December 2009

Thought I'd do a quick post on this, as when I searched I found little.

In some experiments I did I looked for a Linux answer to EAC, I believe that = rubyripper (RR)

This is a script with an optional GUI that uses CDparanoia + checksumming.

I used Sound Juicer on a couple of CDs, one of which had what sounded like scratches on one track!

Using RR I ripped the CD again, and saw that it was picking up a lot of errors.

Basically RR rips in chunks multiple times (2 by default), if the checksums are not equal it then tries again - until it gets two chunks with the same checksum.

On most CDs this isn't relevant, on a few the error rate is high.

The secon RR rip was clear of 'scratches'!


If anyone else uses another Linux solution please let me know.

M
Posted on: 22 December 2009 by Aleg
quote:
Originally posted by Mr Underhill:
Thought I'd do a quick post on this, as when I searched I found little.

In some experiments I did I looked for a Linux answer to EAC, I believe that = rubyripper (RR)

This is a script with an optional GUI that uses CDparanoia + checksumming.

I used Sound Juicer on a couple of CDs, one of which had what sounded like scratches on one track!

Using RR I ripped the CD again, and saw that it was picking up a lot of errors.

Basically RR rips in chunks multiple times (2 by default), if the checksums are not equal it then tries again - until it gets two chunks with the same checksum.

On most CDs this isn't relevant, on a few the error rate is high.

The secon RR rip was clear of 'scratches'!


If anyone else uses another Linux solution please let me know.

M


dBPoweramp using Wine
Fom dBPoweramp website:
quote:
Linux is catered for with Wine. Fully Unicode compatible.


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aleg
Posted on: 23 December 2009 by Mr Underhill
Yes,

I did consider Wine - but I suffer from a biase for running open-source Linux software on Linux.

As I found zip posts about the strengths and weaknesses of the Linux solutions I decided to start a thread.

M
Posted on: 23 December 2009 by Aleg
quote:
Originally posted by Mr Underhill:
Yes,

I did consider Wine - but I suffer from a biase for running open-source Linux software on Linux.

As I found zip posts about the strengths and weaknesses of the Linux solutions I decided to start a thread.

M


It's not open source, but there is a free version and it is certainly one of the best rippers.

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aleg
Posted on: 31 December 2009 by The Matty
Mr Underhill,

I had a similar need recently and now use a program called RipperX which uses CD Paranoia to rip the audio into WAV format, but can then convert it to MP3 or another format. It also requires a library called 'id3lib' but work very well and is completely configurable.

If you use KDE (I recently migrated from it to XFCE), try K3B which can rip audio as well as burn it.

Thanks,
Matty
Posted on: 31 December 2009 by Mr Underhill
Thx Matty,

M