Re: [gentoo-user] CD ripper that generates song titles?

2015-09-08 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
On Tuesday, September 08, 2015 12:09:14 AM cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > > > On Monday, September 07, 2015 7:45:47 PM cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > > > Alex Corkwell wrote: > > > > > > > On Wed, Aug 26,

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ripper that generates song titles?

2015-09-08 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
On Tuesday, September 08, 2015 1:59:35 AM Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > On Tuesday, September 08, 2015 12:09:14 AM cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > > Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > > > > > On Monday, September 07, 2015 7:45:47 PM cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ripper that generates song titles?

2015-09-08 Thread covici
Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > On Tuesday, September 08, 2015 12:09:14 AM cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > > Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > > > > > On Monday, September 07, 2015 7:45:47 PM cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > > > > Alex

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ripper that generates song titles?

2015-09-07 Thread covici
Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > On Monday, September 07, 2015 7:45:47 PM cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > > Alex Corkwell wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 04:06:10PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > > > > I went to the CNE (Canadian

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ripper that generates song titles?

2015-09-07 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
On Monday, September 07, 2015 10:51:18 PM cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > > > On Monday, September 07, 2015 7:45:47 PM cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > > > Alex Corkwell wrote: > > > > > > > On Wed, Aug 26,

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ripper that generates song titles?

2015-09-07 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
On Tuesday, September 08, 2015 12:09:14 AM cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > > > On Monday, September 07, 2015 7:45:47 PM cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > > > Alex Corkwell wrote: > > > > > > > On Wed, Aug 26,

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ripper that generates song titles?

2015-09-07 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
On Monday, September 07, 2015 7:45:47 PM cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > Alex Corkwell wrote: > > > On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 04:06:10PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > > > I went to the CNE (Canadian National Exhibition) yesterday and > > > indulged in a buying spree of 18

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ripper that generates song titles?

2015-09-07 Thread covici
Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > On Monday, September 07, 2015 7:45:47 PM cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > > Alex Corkwell wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 04:06:10PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > > > > I went to the CNE (Canadian

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ripper that generates song titles?

2015-09-07 Thread covici
Alex Corkwell wrote: > On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 04:06:10PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > > I went to the CNE (Canadian National Exhibition) yesterday and > > indulged in a buying spree of 18 CD sets of my fave music (basically > > anything pop/rock/country pre-Beatles).

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ripper that generates song titles?

2015-08-31 Thread Stroller
On Sun, 30 August 2015, at 11:46 am, Neil Bothwick wrote: > >> There are 3 fields that my algorithm looks at... >> >> Albumperformer= 'Various Artists' >> Performer= 'Various Artists' >> Tracktitle= 'Johnny Cash / I Walk The Line' > > … > It does raise the

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ripper that generates song titles?

2015-08-31 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 31/08/2015 18:40, Stroller wrote: > > On Sun, 30 August 2015, at 11:46 am, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> >>> There are 3 fields that my algorithm looks at... >>> >>> Albumperformer= 'Various Artists' >>> Performer= 'Various Artists' >>> Tracktitle= 'Johnny Cash / I Walk

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ripper that generates song titles?

2015-08-31 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 05:40:04PM +0100, Stroller wrote > > On Sun, 30 August 2015, at 11:46 am, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > >> There are 3 fields that my algorithm looks at... > >> > >> Albumperformer= 'Various Artists' > >> Performer= 'Various Artists' > >>

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ripper that generates song titles?

2015-08-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 29 Aug 2015 20:20:45 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: How do you handle compilation/multi-artist CDs? Please re-read the message you're replying to. An example .inf file is attached. That's what I was missing... There are 3 fields that my algorithm looks at... Albumperformer=

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ripper that generates song titles?

2015-08-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 28 Aug 2015 21:09:31 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: Why reinvent the wheel? abcde is a shell script that does this and much more. It uses whichever ripper, encoder etc. that you want, with whatever options you want. I like to putter around with bash scripts. I've written up a

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ripper that generates song titles?

2015-08-29 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 10:38:44AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote 4896 /usr/bin/abcde that handles things to *MY* specs for *MY* needs. It processes .inf and .wav files in a directory, creating flac files in a flac subdirectory. I haven't tested it under all conditions, but it tries to

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ripper that generates song titles?

2015-08-28 Thread Justin Findlay
On 08/26/2015 02:06 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: I went to the CNE (Canadian National Exhibition) yesterday and indulged in a buying spree of 18 CD sets of my fave music (basically anything pop/rock/country pre-Beatles). I now have over 20 CDs that I want to rip to flac eventually. I dread the

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ripper that generates song titles?

2015-08-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 28 Aug 2015 07:03:00 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Vinyl has always been the medium of choice for audio snobs... And by snob you don't mean an insult, you mean someone with a trained ear who can detect superior quality, right? Those too. for those of us whose ears spent too long in

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ripper that generates song titles?

2015-08-28 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 10:00:54PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote On Thu, 27 Aug 2015 15:42:46 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: Title-artist-based filenames are harder than it looks. I'm working on a bash script to generate title_-_artist.flac filenames from audio_nn.inf data. Then I'll pass

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ripper that generates song titles?

2015-08-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 27/08/2015 11:53, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 27 Aug 2015 06:14:46 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: I find for popular CDs (like what my kids buy in music stores), Kids still buy CDs? My grandson recently asked me What's a record? when I used the term. I live in a different universe

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ripper that generates song titles?

2015-08-27 Thread Alan Grimes
Mick wrote: Vinyl LPs are making a comeback in the UK too among audiophiles. Those who can afford it use valve amps too. Yeah, the most popular type is the Single Ended Triode (SET). The most popular toobz are the 2A3 (good for about 5W output) and the 300B (good for about 8W output). -- IQ

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ripper that generates song titles?

2015-08-27 Thread Mick
On Thursday 27 Aug 2015 15:43:41 Alan McKinnon wrote: On 27/08/2015 11:53, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 27 Aug 2015 06:14:46 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: I find for popular CDs (like what my kids buy in music stores), Kids still buy CDs? My grandson recently asked me What's a record? when

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ripper that generates song titles?

2015-08-27 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 01:37:42PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote BTW: I recommend to add: speed=4 paraopts=proof and if your drive supports C2 errors, it may be a good idea to use: speed=4 paraopts=proof,c2check as add-on. How do I know that the drive goes as low as 4? eject -X

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ripper that generates song titles?

2015-08-27 Thread Todd Goodman
* Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk [150827 14:57]: On Thu, 27 Aug 2015 16:43:41 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Kids still buy CDs? My grandson recently asked me What's a record? when I used the term. I live in a different universe to you called South Africa and CDs are a big market

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ripper that generates song titles?

2015-08-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 27 Aug 2015 16:43:41 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Kids still buy CDs? My grandson recently asked me What's a record? when I used the term. I live in a different universe to you called South Africa and CDs are a big market here. The bulk of the population (none of whom are early

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ripper that generates song titles?

2015-08-27 Thread Schilling , Jörg
Most drives support 4x ripping but I know of no drive that has a low speed above 8x. If you have a working algorithm, please send me a note. The format you reported is caused by manual editing of users and missing manual actvities from freedb. -- Send from my Android phone

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ripper that generates song titles?

2015-08-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 27 Aug 2015 15:42:46 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: Title-artist-based filenames are harder than it looks. I'm working on a bash script to generate title_-_artist.flac filenames from audio_nn.inf data. Then I'll pass that name to flac's -o parameter. Why reinvent the wheel? abcde is a

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ripper that generates song titles?

2015-08-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 27/08/2015 20:56, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 27 Aug 2015 16:43:41 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Kids still buy CDs? My grandson recently asked me What's a record? when I used the term. I live in a different universe to you called South Africa and CDs are a big market here. The bulk of

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ripper that generates song titles?

2015-08-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 27 Aug 2015 06:14:46 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: I find for popular CDs (like what my kids buy in music stores), Kids still buy CDs? My grandson recently asked me What's a record? when I used the term. -- Neil Bothwick For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ripper that generates song titles?

2015-08-27 Thread Joerg Schilling
Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: I went to the CNE (Canadian National Exhibition) yesterday and indulged in a buying spree of 18 CD sets of my fave music (basically anything pop/rock/country pre-Beatles). I now have over 20 CDs that I want to rip to flac eventually. I dread the

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ripper that generates song titles?

2015-08-27 Thread Joerg Schilling
Heiko Baums li...@baums-on-web.de wrote: All of them have freedb support and use cdparanoia as back-end. Cdparanoia is not a good choice, it has many flaws: - It is based on a 1997 cdda2wav and was never updated - It does not create the track based files at the right locations

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ripper that generates song titles?

2015-08-27 Thread Joerg Schilling
Fernando Rodriguez frodriguez.develo...@outlook.com wrote: You can try k3b. It can use cd-text or freedb and encode to most formats. It is a kde application so it will pull a lot of deps if you don't use kde. k3b unfortunately does not use the best low level code for extraction. Better use

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ripper that generates song titles?

2015-08-27 Thread Joerg Schilling
Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: Thanks. I've now switched from cdparanoia to cdda2wav, like so... cdda2wav -vall dev=1,0,0 cddb=0 -paranoia -B I get separate tracks and info files, e.g. audio_01.inf, audio_01.wav. audio_02.inf, audio_02.wav, etc. I can pull the tune and

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ripper that generates song titles?

2015-08-27 Thread wabenbau
Joerg Schilling joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote: Heiko Baums li...@baums-on-web.de wrote: All of them have freedb support and use cdparanoia as back-end. Cdparanoia is not a good choice, it has many flaws: - It is based on a 1997 cdda2wav and was never updated -

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ripper that generates song titles?

2015-08-26 Thread Daniel Frey
On 08/26/2015 01:06 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: I went to the CNE (Canadian National Exhibition) yesterday and indulged in a buying spree of 18 CD sets of my fave music (basically anything pop/rock/country pre-Beatles). I now have over 20 CDs that I want to rip to flac eventually. I dread the

[gentoo-user] CD ripper that generates song titles?

2015-08-26 Thread Walter Dnes
I went to the CNE (Canadian National Exhibition) yesterday and indulged in a buying spree of 18 CD sets of my fave music (basically anything pop/rock/country pre-Beatles). I now have over 20 CDs that I want to rip to flac eventually. I dread the gruntwork in renaming tracks like

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ripper that generates song titles?

2015-08-26 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Wed, 26 Aug 2015 22:49:19 +0200 schrieb Heiko Baums li...@baums-on-web.de: Am 26.08.2015 um 22:06 schrieb Walter Dnes: I went to the CNE (Canadian National Exhibition) yesterday and indulged in a buying spree of 18 CD sets of my fave music (basically anything pop/rock/country

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ripper that generates song titles?

2015-08-26 Thread Emanuele Rusconi
I usually use rubyripper. Like others similar software, it uses cddb to get the titles. If the CD set is unknown to cddb, you can try to rename the files with Picard, which uses the musicbrainz database and can use the file's fingerprint to find a match. It's usually very accurate. -- Emanuele

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ripper that generates song titles?

2015-08-26 Thread Heiko Baums
Am 26.08.2015 um 22:06 schrieb Walter Dnes: I went to the CNE (Canadian National Exhibition) yesterday and indulged in a buying spree of 18 CD sets of my fave music (basically anything pop/rock/country pre-Beatles). I now have over 20 CDs that I want to rip to flac eventually. I dread the

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ripper that generates song titles?

2015-08-26 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 10:58:03PM +0200, Marc Joliet wrote Am Wed, 26 Aug 2015 16:06:10 -0400 schrieb Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org: I went to the CNE (Canadian National Exhibition) yesterday and indulged in a buying spree of 18 CD sets of my fave music (basically anything

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ripper that generates song titles?

2015-08-26 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
On Wednesday, August 26, 2015 4:06:10 PM Walter Dnes wrote: I went to the CNE (Canadian National Exhibition) yesterday and indulged in a buying spree of 18 CD sets of my fave music (basically anything pop/rock/country pre-Beatles). I now have over 20 CDs that I want to rip to flac

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ripper that generates song titles?

2015-08-26 Thread wabenbau
Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: I went to the CNE (Canadian National Exhibition) yesterday and indulged in a buying spree of 18 CD sets of my fave music (basically anything pop/rock/country pre-Beatles). I now have over 20 CDs that I want to rip to flac eventually. I dread the

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ripper that generates song titles?

2015-08-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 26 Aug 2015 16:06:10 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: I went to the CNE (Canadian National Exhibition) yesterday and indulged in a buying spree of 18 CD sets of my fave music (basically anything pop/rock/country pre-Beatles). I now have over 20 CDs that I want to rip to flac eventually.

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ripper that generates song titles?

2015-08-26 Thread covici
Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: I went to the CNE (Canadian National Exhibition) yesterday and indulged in a buying spree of 18 CD sets of my fave music (basically anything pop/rock/country pre-Beatles). I now have over 20 CDs that I want to rip to flac eventually. I dread the

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ripper that generates song titles?

2015-08-26 Thread Alex Corkwell
On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 04:06:10PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: I went to the CNE (Canadian National Exhibition) yesterday and indulged in a buying spree of 18 CD sets of my fave music (basically anything pop/rock/country pre-Beatles). I now have over 20 CDs that I want to rip to flac

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ripper that generates song titles?

2015-08-26 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Wed, 26 Aug 2015 16:06:10 -0400 schrieb Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org: I went to the CNE (Canadian National Exhibition) yesterday and indulged in a buying spree of 18 CD sets of my fave music (basically anything pop/rock/country pre-Beatles). I now have over 20 CDs that I want to

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ripper that generates song titles?

2015-08-26 Thread Daniel Frey
On 08/26/2015 03:50 PM, Alex Corkwell wrote: I personally like using morituri [1] for ripping my CDs. It's a little bit slower than some, but very accurate (I believe it compares several reads, just to make sure there were no errors). It's not available in the main portage tree, but it's in

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ripper that generates song titles?

2015-08-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 26/08/2015 22:06, Walter Dnes wrote: I went to the CNE (Canadian National Exhibition) yesterday and indulged in a buying spree of 18 CD sets of my fave music (basically anything pop/rock/country pre-Beatles). I now have over 20 CDs that I want to rip to flac eventually. I dread the