On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 02:22:07PM -0500, rb@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