[PLUG] CDParanoia/Lame issues/ Ping Paul Mullen

John Jordan johnxj at comcast.net
Thu Dec 15 06:37:11 UTC 2005


On 14 Dec 2005, at 15:19, Rogan Creswick wrote:

> On 12/14/05, John Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> > It takes a noobie a very long time to learn the tricks of the
> > command line. :(
> 
> You may find it easier to use something like Grip to rip the cds.  It
> will deal with the renaming and filing for you, although you may have
> considered this before.  In any case, there are almost certianly
> better options than manually ripping / encoding 100's of discs.

Actually, we;ve been through all this before. I tried Grip and gave up 
on it as uselsess for classical music. The problem is that I am not 
ripping songs. I am ripping symphonies and operas. I want all the 
tracks in one mp3 file. But sometimes a CD has more than one 
symphony on it, in which case I want just the tracks for each 
symphony in one file. I've tried ripping individual tracks and then 
making them as one "song," but it does not work well in the real 
world. After all, why would I want to listen to just the thrid 
movement of a symphony without the first, second and fourth 
movements?

So the result is that I want to rip/encode the CDs individually and 
manually. Works better for classical. Unfortunately, Grip does not 
"think" this way. It is designed for an album containing a dozen 
popular songs where the publisher included one or two cool songs 
and the rest are junk that the user wants to dump. Or at the least, 
where the user wants to arrange individual "songs" into a "playlist." 
I have yet to create a playlist, as it is largely pointless for classical.




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