Considerable progress! Mark Lanctot;195274 Wrote: > 1. EAC. I gather that the recommended ripper is GRIP. I tried it > today and liked it. It does seem to try to recover errors and will > slow down the drive when it encounters problems. But reporting of > these problems leaves a lot to be desired - it just has a little > animated face to let you know what's going on, it doesn't log where the > errors are occurring, and it doesn't support AccurateRip. Is this the > penultimate Linux ripper?
Thanks to bukharin, I tried Rubyripper and I'm very impressed! Feast your eyes on this nice logfile: > This log is created by Rubyripper, version 0.3 > > Official website: http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubyripper/ > Wiki page: http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Rubyripper > > Cdrom player used to rip: HL-DT-ST CD-RW GCE-8523B 1.03 > Cdrom offset used: 0 > > Ripper used: cdparanoia () > Matches required for all chunks: 2 > Matches required for erronous chunks: 2 > > Codec(s) used: > -flac -> -8 -V (flac 1.1.2) > > CDDB INFO > > Artist = Joy Division > Album = Unknown Pleasures > Year = 1979 > Genre = Rock > Tracks = 10 > > 01 - Disorder > 02 - Day Of The Lords > 03 - Candidate > 04 - Insight > 05 - New Dawn Fades > 06 - She's Lost Control > 07 - Shadowplay > 08 - Wilderness > 09 - Interzone > 10 - I Remember Nothing > > STATUS > > Starting to rip track 10, trial 1# > Starting to rip track 10, trial 2# > Analyzing files for mismatching chunks > Every chunk matched 2 times :) > MD5 Digest is f3b0cce880dbd64b39ca7ac97becf3e5 Note I'm still playing with the encoding settings, but that's the kind of data I was looking for that Grip wouldn't give me. Haven't encountered a faulty disc yet, but when I do and it indicates on which track the errors are (it seems to from the above log) I'll be all set. I also like the ripping method, like dBpowerAMP Reference - rips the entire track, then re-rips and compares rather than jogging the drive back and forth reading every sector. Nice. What I didn't like: - it did a strange surging seek, going down in speed in steps first, then up in speed, before it started ripping. This took a long time, maybe a minute, and it didn't say what it was doing. - the ripping and encoding progress bars don't move until they complete, i.e. they jump from 0-100% in one step. This means while it's ripping or encoding you have no idea if it's frozen or how much longer it will be. I suspect this is due to the software's beta status. > 2. MAREO. I'm currently encoding to FLAC, then encoding to MP3, then > doing MP3Gain analysis and adjustment with this. Is there a Linux > equivalent or will I have to divide this into a series of steps? Progress here too, it looks like Rubyripper supports multiple encoders. Haven't played with that yet. > 3. Mp3tag. I installed EasyTag but haven't played with it much. It > seems OK, but is there anything better? I did a little more investigating - EasyTag is very good but I still haven't really challenged it yet. I suppose I could also try Amarok if EasyTag isn't to my liking. > 4. MP3Gain. I like this Windows program very much and use its rather > unique features like using a reference other than 89 dB and adjusting > the file's volume. Anything in Linux that does this? htrd states that MP3Gain will work under Linux, and Rubyripper even has an "Other" encoder line that I could use for it! > 5. Ripping of audio from DVD video. I've done this a few times and I > will want to do it again. It requires a ripper than can demux to AC3 > files, then a program that converts AC3 to WAV. Is this possible in > Linux? Haven't tried this yet but bukharin recommends dvdrip so I'll give that a whirl. If it encodes direct to WAV without the AC3 step, that's fantastic. One thing I forgot to mention: album cover art. On Windows, since my Album Art Aggregator stopped working, I switched to Album Cover Art Downloader. Album Cover Art Downloader has a Debian package which installed perfectly. It even has an identical user interface! Thanks so much everyone. This is going along quite well and I'm thinking I may be able to ditch Windows altogether, which would solve the whole VMware/dual boot/RAID headscratcher. -- Mark Lanctot ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34505 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
