------------------------------------------------------------------------ A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25661 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Question: Would you be interested in an easy to use CD-Ripper - Yes - No - Not for me, but for others ------------------------------------------------------------------------
Squirrel Wrote: > I personally use ripit.pl on NetBSD (Perl wrapper for cdparanoia/lame) > with my own modification to run mp3gain over the ripped CD afterwards > (bye-bye loudness wars). > > However this is quite a techie solution, no GUI, all CLI based. What > would be nice is a consumer electronics style solution (something that > can be installed on a HTPC with a slot-load style drive) that behaves > like this by default (options configurable): > > Insert audio CD. > > Check CD against database of ripped CDs. If it's already been ripped, > start playing ripped version and eject CD. > > If it hasn't been ripped: > > Check for CD-Text labels on CD. If present then use these for ID3 tags. > If not then perform a CDDB lookup. > > Begin ripping. Once first track is encoded, start playing album from > beginning. When ripping complete eject disc. > > This would obviously need to work with some kind of media library > manager, but that's the way I'd imagine it working. I guess the problem I have problem I have with preconfigured, automatic rippers is the lack of flexibility. I'm sure we've all seen the problems with CD lookup: - Titles That Use Capitals On Words Like The, And, A, Etc. Very Annoying. - Tytles with speeling errorrs - Genres not exactly what you'd agree with - I've seen Black Sabbath tagged with an R&B genre! - Titles that were "helpfully" expanded by someone but that don't match what's on the CD back. There isn't a disc I rip that I don't have to make a correction or two. On several there were multiple entries that I had to choose from. And I've had one or two that weren't found at all. I also like to have flexibility with tagging. For one thing, I don't care about year or track number. Also when tagging MP3s, I use ID3v2 only - if I use ID3v1 simultaneously I find SlimServer can get confused. Perhaps a newbie might not need as much flexibility as I've become accustomed to, but I bet they will need some flexibility with CD lookup. -- Mark Lanctot ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25661 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
