This is perhaps late .... still, it is good idea to use some of your favorite front end to cdparanoia and lame in order to Id3 tag the resulting files.
The same applies to flac and other formats. Tagging them manually without querying cddb or other metadata sources is painful. I personally like/use ancient grip, but there are other more modern applications. Tomas On Sun, 2019-03-03 at 22:08 -0800, Dick Steffens wrote: > 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. > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
