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Re: [Wlug] One step CD ripping to MP3?

by rb＠millbury.net

Grip seems to be the magic app I was looking for. MUCH TOO EASY!!! ;) Thanks to all that replied. -- Rob -= rb(a)millbury.net =-

Feb. 18, 2002

Re: [Wlug] One step CD ripping to MP3?

by Andy Stewart

On Monday 18 February 2002 05:58 pm, you wrote: > On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 05:44:20PM -0500, Andy Stewart wrote: > > Grip is a GUI which understands the following rippers and has built in > > commands for them (which are customizable): > > Sounds cool, Andy. Can I skip the GUI and automate it once it's set up? > Rob and I both seem to want a solution where we can set up our happy > defaults, then just pop a disc in and say "go." > > -Chuck I'm not sure...I thought starting the GUI, popping in the audio CD, and doing 3 clicks was about as automatic as it gets. :-) It sounds like what you might want is something that's polling the drive, looking for the insertion of a new CD, which it assumes it can rip. The ripping and encoding process commences. Once done, it sits patiently until you insert the next CD. The polling stops when you stop the original program. Is this the kind of thing which you seek? If so, I've never seen such a beast. Andy -- Andy Stewart Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA, USA http://www.wlug.org

Feb. 18, 2002

Re: [Wlug] One step CD ripping to MP3?

by Chuck Homic

On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 05:44:20PM -0500, Andy Stewart wrote: > Grip is a GUI which understands the following rippers and has built in > commands for them (which are customizable): Sounds cool, Andy. Can I skip the GUI and automate it once it's set up? Rob and I both seem to want a solution where we can set up our happy defaults, then just pop a disc in and say "go." -Chuck

Feb. 18, 2002

Re: [Wlug] One step CD ripping to MP3?

by Brian J. Conway

> It works for me...maybe it'll help you out, too. Look at > http://www.nostatic.org/grip for more information. I use Grip and it's great, but you should note that versions newer than 2.96 are no longer GTK-only and require some Gnome libraries (and devel packages to compile) as well. As I don't use Gnome or any such libraries, I expressed my interest to the developers in letting the Gnome requirement be optional, but they didn't seem interested. Just my $0.02, 2.96 works great for me. Brian J. Conway bconway(a)wpi.edu "LINUX is obsolete" - Andrew S. Tanenbaum, creator of Minix - Jan 29, 1992

Feb. 18, 2002

Re: [Wlug] One step CD ripping to MP3?

by Andy Stewart

On Monday 18 February 2002 02:50 pm, Chuck Homic wrote: > On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 02:22:07PM -0500, rb(a)millbury.net wrote: > > Is there an automated way in Linux to place an audio CD-ROM into the > > tray and have it rip into 256k "CD-quality" MP3s without user > > intervention? I know about lame as an encoder from .wav to .mp3. > > I use a hacky perl script that uses cdparanoia and lame. It's pretty > ghetto, so I'll let you roll your own, or maybe someone else on this > list has a better one. But I just pop the CD into my P200 and let it go > overnight, and compress a variable-rate 256k. (Averages 120-150 on most > discs.) Then when it's done, I rename the resultant .mp3 files. > > You'll get extra credit, though, if you have it look up the CDDB and > rename the tracks for you. :) > > -Chuck I use grip which also has the nice advantage of automatically using my SMP machine to its fullest. The result is 128K quality MP3s by default (due to Lame), but the commands are fully customizable. Grip is a GUI which understands the following rippers and has built in commands for them (which are customizable): cdparanoia cdda2wav other (put in your favorite ripper) It also understands these MP3 encoders: lame bladeenc l3enc xingmp3enc mp3encode gogo oggenc other (put in your favorite wav->mp3 encoder) Finally, it reads the CD and looks up the songs in a database (CDDB) so you don't have to type the song titles, artist, etc. It works for me...maybe it'll help you out, too. Look at http://www.nostatic.org/grip for more information. Andy -- Andy Stewart Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA, USA http://www.wlug.org

Feb. 18, 2002

Re: [Wlug] One step CD ripping to MP3?

by Chuck Homic

On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 02:22:07PM -0500, rb(a)millbury.net wrote: > Is there an automated way in Linux to place an audio CD-ROM into the tray and > have it rip into 256k "CD-quality" MP3s without user intervention? I know > about lame as an encoder from .wav to .mp3. I use a hacky perl script that uses cdparanoia and lame. It's pretty ghetto, so I'll let you roll your own, or maybe someone else on this list has a better one. But I just pop the CD into my P200 and let it go overnight, and compress a variable-rate 256k. (Averages 120-150 on most discs.) Then when it's done, I rename the resultant .mp3 files. You'll get extra credit, though, if you have it look up the CDDB and rename the tracks for you. :) -Chuck (If you're *really* interested, I can send you the script that I have when I get to my box at home. The only good thing about my script is that it parallelizes the ripping with the encoding. ie. it encodes track 1 while track 2 is ripping, etc...)

Feb. 18, 2002

Re: [Wlug] One step CD ripping to MP3?

by Frank Sweetser

On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 02:22:07PM -0500, rb(a)millbury.net wrote: > > Here's a question from someone who doesn't do much Linux multimedia (me) but > has a friend who wants a solution. > > > Situation: > > Friend wants an MP3 server for his home network to play his large CD > collection. I've been trying out edna (http://edna.sourceforge.net/) to > serve/stream MP3s and its a nice simple and satisfactory solution. Works well > in that it is basically a webserver that is accessible from any computer on > the network. Does multiple streams as well. > > > Problem: > > Is there an automated way in Linux to place an audio CD-ROM into the tray and > have it rip into 256k "CD-quality" MP3s without user intervention? I know > about lame as an encoder from .wav to .mp3. > > Are there any automated solutions available (or creatable) that will allow my > friend to buy a new CD, place it in his Linux MP3 server CD tray, have it rip > to 256k MP3s without him having to press any keys/buttons, then eject the > disk after ripping? I'm not a very good script writer so any help there is > also welcomed. Bunches of them. My personal favorite is grip, a nice shiny gtk based frontend to to cdparanioa/lame|bladenc|etc/id3tag. Search freshmeat for various other ones, ranging from other shiny versions to bash scripts. -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu, fs at suave.net | $ x 16 Full-time WPI Network Tech, Part time Linux/Perl guy | #define NULL 0 /* silly thing is, we don't even use this */ -- Larry Wall in perl.c from the perl source code

Feb. 18, 2002

One step CD ripping to MP3?

by rb＠millbury.net

Here's a question from someone who doesn't do much Linux multimedia (me) but has a friend who wants a solution. Situation: Friend wants an MP3 server for his home network to play his large CD collection. I've been trying out edna (http://edna.sourceforge.net/) to serve/stream MP3s and its a nice simple and satisfactory solution. Works well in that it is basically a webserver that is accessible from any computer on the network. Does multiple streams as well. Problem: Is there an automated way in Linux to place an audio CD-ROM into the tray and have it rip into 256k "CD-quality" MP3s without user intervention? I know about lame as an encoder from .wav to .mp3. Are there any automated solutions available (or creatable) that will allow my friend to buy a new CD, place it in his Linux MP3 server CD tray, have it rip to 256k MP3s without him having to press any keys/buttons, then eject the disk after ripping? I'm not a very good script writer so any help there is also welcomed. Currently, he is using RealJukebox on Win2K to rip to .wav and RazorLame to encode to MP3 since the free version of RJB only encodes to 96k. A two stage process that I *KNOW* Linux could do better all by itself in one! <grin> -- Rob -= rb(a)millbury.net =-

Feb. 18, 2002

Re: [Wlug] network questions

by Stephen C. Daukas

At 05:03 PM 2/17/2002, Doug Waud wrote: >"bryon3245(a)netzero.com" wrote: [...] >the same thing as that Linksys box Steven Daukas (is that a real name?) The Witness Protection Program doesn't give you a choice; don't you remember that orientation session? I have to admit, I didn't feel so bad when you got your new name! Steve

Feb. 18, 2002

Re: [Wlug] reading/writing floppy disk

by Andy Stewart

On Sunday 17 February 2002 06:27 pm, you wrote: > I'm a little confused. Do I have to mount and unmount /dev/fd0 every > time I want to look at a different floppy disk? Is there a less > cumbersome way to do this? Thanks. > > Greg Well, this rather depends how you access the floppy. Normally, you would have to mount/unmount the floppy. However,if the floppy has a FAT (MS-DOS) filesystem on it, you can use the mtools package and not mount/unmount each time. Check it out, mtools might do the trick for you. -- Andy Stewart Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA, USA http://www.wlug.org

Feb. 18, 2002