CD ripper

BigAl-sa

BigAl-sa

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I've been looking for a decent ripper (something like EAC & lame on win), and found a couple, ripperX which I couldn't get to work even after downloading tons of stuff and rubyripper. I first got on to v 0.5.3, which hung, hogging one of the cores to 100% on Kubuntu 8.10. I found a newer version (in my link) which works very efficiently, much like EAC (or CD-DAE), so recommend it to anyone looking for a CD ripper.
 
I use RythmBox music player to do mine for me. It works quite well and I ripped a cd on my laptop (so only 24x read) in under 10 minutes. Quality being cd quality, oga format. It can od mp3 but oga is a better quality.
 
Funny, I did this for the first time in what seemed like years just yesterday. Install 'cdparanoia' 'faac' 'lame' and 'ripit'

For mp3, do:

Code: 
ripit -o . -r 1 -c 1 -q 5

For m4a, do:

Code: 
ripit -o . -r 1 -c 3 -q 250

Adjust the '-q' parameter up/down to increase/decrease quality. I have found this to require the minimum interaction and work really well.
 
The thing that I like about rubyRipper, which I'm not sure if the command line rippers do, is that it checks how well the rip went by ripping each track twice, then comparing the rips.

CD-DAE does this by comparing the second rip to what was saved to disk. EAC has many different algorithms for checking the quality of the rip.
 
cdparanoia has some built-in error checking - not sure exactly what, but it does check. ripit is just a script that pulls all the parts together to make it more convenient to use.
 
koffiejunkie said:
cdparanoia has some built-in error checking - not sure exactly what, but it does check. ripit is just a script that pulls all the parts together to make it more convenient to use.
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rubyRipper uses cdparanoia, so I wonder if that's where the error checking comes from??
 
BigAl-sa said:
rubyRipper uses cdparanoia, so I wonder if that's where the error checking comes from??
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Probably. cdparanoia is awesome. Some years ago I accidentally put two CDs in a 56x CD-ROM. One of them got pushed past the tray to the back of the drive when I opened the tray, so only one disc came out. When I closed the tray, the wheel began to spin up and made nice crop circles in the other CD, which happened to be a music CD I had imported at great cost.

To make a long story short, after applying some brasso to it, cdparanoia was able to pull all the tracks off, which no other ripper to this date could do. In fact most drives and CD players don't even pick up the disc.
 
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