ripping CDs
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From: david on 2 Sep 2009 11:42 Have ubuntu 9.04 installed and wanted to rip approx 200 CDs to MP3. Any recommendations what to use that's fast, not CLI ie has a GUI, and produces decent quality files. I couldn't find Sound Juicer (google search recommended) in the repos and just tried using K3b which took 15 minutes to rip to ogg whereas, dare I say it, I can do this in XP in about 4 mins (same CD). Really prefer to use Linux but it needs to be fast. Thanks
From: chris on 2 Sep 2009 12:06 david wrote: > Have ubuntu 9.04 installed and wanted to rip approx 200 CDs to MP3. > > Any recommendations what to use that's fast, not CLI ie has a GUI, and > produces decent quality files. > > I couldn't find Sound Juicer (google search recommended) in the repos and > just tried using K3b which took 15 minutes to rip to ogg whereas, dare I > say it, I can do this in XP in about 4 mins (same CD). You seem to be comparing ogg with mp3 and probably with different bit-rates so the comparison isn't very fair. I normally use Kaudiocreator, it's quite simple, but quite configurable. Try that.
From: Chris Whelan on 2 Sep 2009 12:13 On Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:42:58 +0000, david wrote: > Have ubuntu 9.04 installed and wanted to rip approx 200 CDs to MP3. > > Any recommendations what to use that's fast, not CLI ie has a GUI, and > produces decent quality files. > > I couldn't find Sound Juicer (google search recommended) in the repos > and just tried using K3b which took 15 minutes to rip to ogg whereas, > dare I say it, I can do this in XP in about 4 mins (same CD). > > Really prefer to use Linux but it needs to be fast. > > Thanks Just tried using K3b on a Mepis install. Took 7 minutes on an oldish machine. Bit-rate was 175. I didn't see any significant difference in speed to XP/WMP. Chris -- Remove prejudice to reply.
From: Unruh on 2 Sep 2009 12:20 david <dave(a)antispam.invalid> writes: >Have ubuntu 9.04 installed and wanted to rip approx 200 CDs to MP3. >Any recommendations what to use that's fast, not CLI ie has a GUI, and >produces decent quality files. You have 200 CDs and you want a GUI? Why in the world would you want to do that? Note that you could just use sox, with lame installed, to rapidly grab the stuff and create a set of MP3s. >I couldn't find Sound Juicer (google search recommended) in the repos and >just tried using K3b which took 15 minutes to rip to ogg whereas, dare I Ogg is much higher quality than MP3 and takes longer to encode. >say it, I can do this in XP in about 4 mins (same CD). >Really prefer to use Linux but it needs to be fast. I thinkyou are confused. If you want fast, you want cli. >Thanks
From: Sheridan Hutchinson on 2 Sep 2009 12:49
Hi David, The source of your problem almost certainly is associated with a lack of DMA transfer being setup for your DVD drive, as there is nothing inherently different (speed wise) about the way that linux and windows access CD and DVD drives. I'm not sure which distro you're using, however the widely documented hdparm tool is what you want to solve this one. --=20 Regards, Sheridan Hutchinson sheridan(a)shezza.org |