Take a look at crip (http://bach.dynet.com/crip) for ripping and tagging classical music. It runs on Linux/Unix and is an interactive, command-line program. The author has an extensive collection of Bach CDs and developed crip since existing programs weren't well-suited to dealing with classical music.
It gives you great control of grouping tracks on a CD into separate works, editing file names and tags, adding extra tags (composer, orchestra, conductor, performer, etc.) before you do the rip. It uses cdparanoia and by default rips to flac. I think it is a far better way to rip classical music than to do automated rips and then have to clean up the mess afterwards. You get the file names and tags right the first time. If you have a poorer-quality CD with scratches, it will first try to rip with full paranoia checking, but allow you to interrupt the rip if it gets stuck, and rerip with reduced error checking. A less-than-perfect rip is better than no rip at all. It takes a lot longer to rip and tag each CD, but you have no back-end cleanup of the mess made by automated rippers due to the poor quality of CDDB tagging info. Automated rippers are great for pop CDs, but crip is far superior for classical music. -- Ron Olsen ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ron Olsen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9233 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=72923 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
