On Mon, March 24, 2008 12:59 pm, David Brown wrote: > On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 12:53:10PM -0700, Lan Barnes wrote: > >>Can I use lame (or some other CLI proggie) for ripping the wavs on a >> music >>CD directly to mp3s? Going through wavs via cdparanoia may be >>significantly increasing the time. > > cdparanoia is _very_ slow, the default settings re-read the data dozens of > time. This is needed for very old cdrom drives. You might try either > cdparanoia '-Z' or 'cdda2wav'. > > 'abcde' <http://www.hispalinux.es/~data/abcde.php> is a script (sh) that > combines all of the steps of ripping, encoding, looking up tracks in the > freedb.org database, etc. > > David
Interesting. The fact that cdparanoia has paranoia makes me wonder how necessary it is. While the time waiting for one's tracks to rip is slow, the time ripping bad tracks quickly is wasted. and one wouldn't know without trying them all. -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
