Favorite ripping tool?

codergeek42 · Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2004 10:00 pm Post subject:

grip.
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Any suggestions for a good CD ripper in linux? I currently use sound-juicer, but it doesn't have support for changing quality settings... any other suggestions?
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bos_mindwarp · Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2004 10:39 pm Post subject:

InfinityX · Guru Joined: 31 Jan 2004 Posts: 385

abcde, one config file, one command. So simple.

Solution_9 · Guru Joined: 22 Jun 2003 Posts: 311

I love, and cant live without Sound Juicer.
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doc.twn · n00b Joined: 20 Nov 2002 Posts: 15 Location: Luxembourg

I always use RipperX

emerge ripperx
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neonknight · Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 10:01 am Post subject:

I used ripperx and sound-juicer, but today I only recommend grip.

micmac · l33t Joined: 28 Nov 2003 Posts: 996

abcde, I totally agree with InfinityX

apmurray · Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 12:26 pm Post subject:

i second sound-juicer

herlock · Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 2:11 pm Post subject:

I always used grip ;-)

JOS654 · Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 5:17 pm Post subject:

abcde is the one and only

#!/bin/bash
abcde -a cddb,read,encode,tag,move,playlist,clean -d /dev/cdrom -o mp3 -p -x

dmitchell · Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 7:09 pm Post subject:

cdparanoia works well enough for me, since I tag my files myself anyway.
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CharlieS · Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 7:32 pm Post subject:

SOUND-JUICER!!!! best ever..

loseruser · Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 8:29 pm Post subject:

enigma_0Z · Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 8:47 pm Post subject:

mmh, so far I like grip the best, automatic tagging, paranoia options, quality options. If sound juicer had options to set sound quality, I would switch. thanks for your help all!
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hw-tph · Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 11:51 pm Post subject:

If the ripping itself is slow (as opposed to encoding), try using SCSI emulation instead. It is generally much faster and more secure when ripping audio CD's.

Make sure you have SCSI emulation, SCSI CD-ROM and SCSI Generic support in your kernel (or load them - I have ide-scsi in my /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6) and add <ide-device>=ide-scsi to your boot parameters. The IDE disk name of my CD-ROM is /dev/hdc so I add "hdc=ide-scsi" to the end of the kernel line in my grub.conf.

Reboot to make the boot parameters appy, then set up Grip to use your SCSI device instead of the IDE device and rip away.

You will also have to change your /etc/fstab to accomodate for this change. Edit the line which defines the CD-ROM and its mount point and change the device to your SCSI device name (usually /dev/scd0).

Håkan

eean · Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2004 12:10 am Post subject:

Is there a reason SCSI emulation would make it better? Doesn't make a whole lot of sense. I think cdparanoia does some fairly low level things, I wouldn't want to get in the way of it.

If you notice slow rips, that probably means your CDs are scratched up.

hw-tph · Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2004 3:07 pm Post subject:

Actually, cdparanoia does work better - or at least faster - with SCSI emulation. Try it.

Håkan

gordin · Guru Joined: 11 Oct 2002 Posts: 300 Location: Germany/WI

What do you think: I have a dvd/cdrw combo drive.
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eean · Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2004 5:34 pm Post subject:

Well, I'm still not convinced about CD paranoia being better with SCSI emulation. Regardless, if you use a ripper like Grip which rips and encodes at the same time and your processor is only of a reasonable speed you'll be spending more time encoding then ripping anyways. Meaning ripping quicker won't actually make the whole process that much quicker.

And its not a matter of cd writing being quicker. Its whether the CD writers are working or not.

milhouse · n00b Joined: 05 Jun 2004 Posts: 11

beandog · Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2004 8:16 pm Post subject: Re: which is the best cd ripper?

eean · Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2004 4:35 am Post subject:

[quote=sdibb]Turn off paranoia on grip to make it rip much faster.

Or try abcde (a better cd encoder) or rip is nice.[/quote]
Ha, well if your going to turn off paranoia you might as well get some crappy WMAs from KaZaA. I suppose it depends where your priorities are.

abcde and grip are just front ends to encoders, not actually encoders themselves. I'd be very surprised that it would make much difference.

r0ss · Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2004 1:48 pm Post subject:

I used to use grip with cdparanoia as well but it took ages to rip. I switched to cdda2wav for ripping instead and everything works much faster now.