mp3 utilities

[Florian Diesch]

shadowfirebird at gmail.com wrote:

> You can rip MP3s from a CD on the command line.  You don't need sound
> juicer.  Of course, it makes life easier to use a GUI program.  But if
> you're having trouble, here's another way:
>
> 1) Use cdda2wav to rip the CD and store it on the disk as WAV files.
>
> 2) Use lame to turn the .wav files to .mp3's.  (Okay, this is a pain
> on the command line, so I often use a much smaller GUI program than
> juicer or rythmbox - 'Grip')

Even if you don't have X 'jack' knows all about ripping:

,----[ ~/bin/pkgdesc jack ]
| Package: jack
| Description: Rip and encode CDs with one command
|  Jack has been developed with one main goal: making OGGs (or MP3s)
|  without having to worry. There is nearly no way that an incomplete rip
|  goes unnoticed, e.g. jack compares WAV and OGG file sizes when
|  continuing from a previous run. Jack also checks your HD space before
|  doing anything (even keeps some MB free).
|  .
|  Jack is different from other such tools in a number of ways:
|   - it supports different rippers and encoders
|   - it is very configurable
|   - it doesn't need X
|   - it can "rip" virtual CD images like the ones created by cdrdao
|   - when using cdparanoia, cdparanoia's status information is displayed
|     and archived for all tracks, so you can see if something went wrong
|   - it uses sophisticated disk space management, i.e. it schedules its
|     ripping/encoding processes depending on available space.
|   - freedb query, file renaming and id3/ogg-tagging
|   - it can resume work after it has been interrupted. If all tracks have
|     been ripped, it doesn't even need the CD anymore, even if you want
|     to do a freedb query.
|   - it can do a freedb query based on OGGs alone, like if you don't
|     remember from which CD those OGGs came from.
|   - freedb submissions
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   Florian
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