On Monday 18 February 2002 02:50 pm, Chuck Homic wrote:
On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 02:22:07PM -0500, rb@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