[PLUG] Mount point of optical drive

Bill Barry bill at billbarry.org
Thu Dec 26 23:17:48 UTC 2013


On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 3:10 PM, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net>wrote:

> On Thu, 26 Dec 2013 12:51:55 -0800
> Dale Snell <ddsnell at frontier.com> dijo:
>
>
> >
> >Try the lsblk(1) command
>
> Even better than df -h.
>
>
Yes, lsblk is nice, thanks for that tip!


> The CD in the drive contains .wav files that are the result of a
> phonetics project. I need to convert them to mp3 so that I can easily
> analyze parts of them in Praat and share them with others interested in
> the work. Normally I use lame at the command line to convert .wav files
> to mp3, but without a mount point that is impossible.
>


This process is called ripping. Once you know the name you can find
hundreds of different tools for doing it. I use one called jack.



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