On 29 September 2011 04:12, Chris <[email protected]> wrote: > I did much the same but with my CD collection. > I used Sound Juicer to rip (you can rip to many formats including custom > bitrates also). > As to the hierarchy you mentioned, again using Sound Juicer, you can set the > destination, the sort order, the sort parms (IE artist, album, etc). > This would create the directories for you based on your choices. > > Sound Juicer is GUI and easy to use. Of course, there are many other options > out there to use - I just mentioned what I used and was happy with.
This sounds interesting, did you get it from the source site or from one of the repos please? If from a repo, will it work with squeeze and what was it called please? Thanks Sharon. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2011 9:44 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Recommendations for ripping problem discs and organizing mp3's by > genre? > > A few years ago I digitized my LP collection onto cdroms, and only now am I > getting around to converting them to mp3's. I'm talking hundreds of homemade > discs, many with two different albums on each disc. > > I thought I would ask for some advice on ripping and organizing. I am > running Wheezy with Gnome (and CLI sometimes) > > Currently I am using GRIP. I like it, it works fine, but it doesn't deal > well with problem discs. For instance, it tries very hard to resolve a > problem reading the disc, but sometimes gets hung and doesn't allow aborting > or skipping a bad track during ripping. Any suggestions on how to best deal > with problems discs and which software to use? Is there a howto or tutorial > on how to deal with problem discs? > > Secondly, I would like to be able to create playlists based on genre, to > then use that playlist in random mode with a console program similar to > mpg123. Suggestions on how to do that? Would it be as simple as creating > folder trees for each genre then using a script to generate a playlist? or > do you know of a easier way? > > There are so many programs to choose from I just thought I'd get a few > recommendations from the list. Some of the programs I've looked at seem too > feature-rich for my needs. I prefer simple-but-robust programs and using > built-in CLI commands when possible. > > Thanks, > Keith Ostertag > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [email protected] > Archive: > http://lists.debian.org/[email protected] > rucktower.com > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected] > > -- A taste of linux http://www.sharons.org.uk/taste/index.html efever http://www.efever.blogspot.com/ Debian 6.0.2, KDE 4.4.5, LibreOffice 3.4.3 Registered Linux user 334501 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAM9u--dY7646zzWVFcRJFU=txv8rstumqmizvg6zfqmxabm...@mail.gmail.com

