On 3/3/19 8:43 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote:
On Sun, 3 Mar 2019 14:46:40 -0800
Dick Steffens <[email protected]> dijo:
Uh, no. Not interested in getting in trouble with the copyright
police. Just want to put my CD, vinyl, and cassette collections on a
hard drive so I can listen to the music from the computer. When I
first started doing this several years ago, we tried listening for the
difference in sound, starting with 320, which is supposedly CD
quality. We didn't like 196, but we were happy with 256, and that's
what I've been using since then.
When I converted my extensive CD collection to MP3s many years ago I
used CDParanoia to make them into .wav files, and then used lame to
convert them to mp3. For the latter I used variable bit rate. The file
sizes were always reasonable, and I couldn't tell the difference
between playing my mp3 or playing the original CD.
Here are the instructions that I saved, because I knew that later I
would never remember how I did it:
For ripping with cdparanoia and lame
1) Determine how many tracks on are the CD: cdparanoia -Q
2) Rip the entire audio CD to one giant file (example assumes a disc
with 10 tracks): cdparanoia 1-10 /home/jjj/MP3s/cdda.wav
3) Encode to MP3 (320 kbps VBR file): lame --vbr-new -B
320 /home/jjj/MP3s/cdda.wav /home/jjj/happyfunfile.mp3
It worked on my box, at least. For more, see man cdparanoia or
xiph.org/paranoia/ cdparanoia progress bar symbols
Thanks. Another tool to put in the box.
I've finished with all the cassette tapes and CDs. Next I'll go back to
tackling the LPs. I'm satisfied with the job Audacity is doing recording
from the USB output of my Ion turntable. And I just export to .mp3 from
Audacity. I learned how to pause at the end of side one and resume
recording on side two, so I can get one file per LP. On LP sets, when it
makes sense, I pause between each of the four or six sides. Works great.
--
Regards,
Dick Steffens
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