On Saturday 26 March 2005 00:51, Paul Kaplan wrote: > Can anyone recommend a program for copying individual tracks from an audio > cd to a hard drive? What about file format for storing the files in? What > about converting between audio file formats? > > TIA > Paul
Grip is best if you want to rip files from CD, but konqueror also can be very useful. Press the 'services' button in your konqueror sidebar and you will see the 'Audio CD browser' (If you cannot see the sidebar hit F9 ) >From the audio CD browser you can drag and drop audio files from the CD in .wav, .ogg, or .mp3 format. Note: Because mp3 is covered by patent Mandrake does not support creating mp3's out of the box. You will have to declare a urpmi source for 'plf' by going to http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ and install the lame and liblame0 packages. As for file formats, as I mention above mp3 is covered by patent and any time you use it a gentleman from the Fraunhofer institute is entitled to turn up on your doorstep demanding money. So us geeky open source types prefer .ogg. It is 'free' software and better quality than mp3 anyway. http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/4416 To convert between file formats there is a neat command line utility called 'sox' Install the sox package and then enter #sox in the url line of konqueror for instructions. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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