Re: how to digitize a sizable CD collection using fedora?

2018-02-04 Thread jdow
On 20180204 06:57, Ed Greshko wrote: On 02/04/18 22:45, Robert P. J. Day wrote: i just did a quick test with abcde, ripping a CD to flac both with and without the "-1" option (diff being ripping to a single FLAC file versus individual FLAC files). the difference in final,

Re: how to digitize a sizable CD collection using fedora?

2018-02-04 Thread David King
On 02/04/2018 09:45 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > ... snip ... > > On Sun, 4 Feb 2018, David King wrote: > >> On 02/03/2018 05:03 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >>> for now, i was thinking of ripping just to .flac since that's >>> lossless and i can always decide later what further format to rip

Re: how to digitize a sizable CD collection using fedora?

2018-02-04 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Sun, 4 Feb 2018 22:52:49 +0100 Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > On Sun, 04 Feb 2018 19:55:14 +1030 > Tim wrote: > > > > Well, if you're going to encode to an unusually high bit rate (that > > example did it at 320kB/s), I'm going to agree with you

Re: how to digitize a sizable CD collection using fedora?

2018-02-04 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Sun, 04 Feb 2018 19:55:14 +1030 Tim wrote: > Allegedly, on or about 4 February 2018, Wolfgang Pfeiffer sent: > > it's definitely true that with fine tools you can encode to mp3's > > with a quality so high that for me at least it's difficult to find a > >

Re: Permission Problems on NAS

2018-02-04 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 02/04/2018 12:02 PM, Robert McBroom wrote: about transfer of the permissions on the files.    However, createrepo gets into trouble and gives errors of the form C_CREATEREPOLIB: Warning: Cannot copy

Permission Problems on NAS

2018-02-04 Thread Robert McBroom
For years I've kept a local repo on NAS so that I can update several systems without having to download everything for each one.  The drives on the NAS are formatted as ntfs for communication with Win systems.  Now I'm getting all kinds of file attributes problems  with rsync transferring the

Re: What is this gibberish?

2018-02-04 Thread Todd Zullinger
Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On 02/04/2018 08:34 AM, Todd Zullinger wrote: > >> The problem wasn't that it was silent. It was that it was a >> long(ish)-running process that was not suited to run as a >> scriptlet. It's better done via cron or as it is now as a >> transient systemd-run service. >

Re: how to digitize a sizable CD collection using fedora?

2018-02-04 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/04/18 22:45, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > i just did a quick test with abcde, ripping a CD to flac both with > and without the "-1" option (diff being ripping to a single FLAC file > versus individual FLAC files). the difference in final, total size is > negligible, both directories around

Re: how to digitize a sizable CD collection using fedora?

2018-02-04 Thread Robert P. J. Day
... snip ... On Sun, 4 Feb 2018, David King wrote: > On 02/03/2018 05:03 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > for now, i was thinking of ripping just to .flac since that's > > lossless and i can always decide later what further format to rip > > to in order to save space. does that make sense? i

Re: how to digitize a sizable CD collection using fedora?

2018-02-04 Thread David King
On 02/03/2018 05:03 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Sat, 3 Feb 2018, Jon LaBadie wrote: > >> On Fri, Feb 02, 2018 at 05:29:40PM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >>> one of my new year's resolutions was to digitize several hundred >>> music CDs in preparation for figuring out what system to use in

Re: how to digitize a sizable CD collection using fedora?

2018-02-04 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 4 February 2018, Wolfgang Pfeiffer sent: > it's definitely true that with fine tools you can encode to mp3's > with a quality so high that for me at least it's difficult to find a > difference to the wav's they were encoded from, even with decent > stereo equipment. Also

Re: how to digitize a sizable CD collection using fedora?

2018-02-04 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 4 Feb 2018, Ed Greshko wrote: ... snip ... > What makes sense to me is to first select a few individual tracks > with different types of music. For example, if you have classical, > pick a few with quiet movements with only strings, those with lots > of highs, etc. Then record and

Re: What is this gibberish?

2018-02-04 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 02/04/2018 08:34 AM, Todd Zullinger wrote: The problem wasn't that it was silent. It was that it was a long(ish)-running process that was not suited to run as a scriptlet. It's better done via cron or as it is now as a transient systemd-run service. And does this actually work? I