[PLUG] Rip CD software

Paul Charles Leddy pcleddy at gmail.com
Mon Dec 3 03:34:32 UTC 2007


Ya, that's what I need, track numbering in the ID3 tags. Because each
Barron's language CD has over 50 tracks, and they need to be played in
order automatically, especially on an iPod like device, for correct
flow of the course material.

Strike two for Macs: 1) no USB support that makes any sense
whatsoever, and CD drives/drivers that fail on disk scratches that
Linux doesn't even flinch on. Sigh.

On Dec 1, 2007 8:23 AM, Wil Cooley <wcooley at nakedape.cc> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 07:23 -0800, Paul Charles Leddy wrote:
> > I've got a Japanese language course on 12 CDs I want to rip to mp3. On
> > Mac, all the mp3 info is perfect, but the CD drive is very slow and
> > unable to read the scratched disks, so hangs. On Linux, ripping flies,
> > but the mp3 info is very incomplete.
> >
> > The core issue with these language courses is you want the tracks to
> > play in order on your mp3 device automatically, which I assume means
> > the track info has to be stored in the mp3 info, but not completely
> > sure, it might be based on the stored title.
> >
> > So, anyone know of good Linux ripping software that does as good a job
> > at creating mp3 info as iTunes?
>
> What I use these days:
>  o Sound Juicer, with MusicBrainz support (I used 'grip' until recently,
> but I have since found SJ to be easier and has built-in MusicBrainz
> support)
>  o If I need CDDB support, I use the MusicBrainz gateway:
> http://musicbrainz.org/doc/FreeDBGateway
>  o Tag Tool (MusicBrainz has a tag editor called "Picard", but it hasn't
> been in the Fedora repos until very recently, so I have not had much
> chance to use it)
>
> The few music players that I have used have sorted on track number by
> default (after grouping by artist and title), which is oddly sensible
> and doesn't actually require reference data sources like most of the
> other attributes.
>
> Wil
>
>
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