[clug] Ripping CDs

Adam Thomas adam.lloyd at gmail.com
Mon Nov 21 19:40:46 MST 2011


Hi,

On 22 November 2011 13:16, Hal Ashburner <hal at ashburner.info> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've used sound-juicer for years to rip stuff to flac. No longer, it's broke* and the internet says has been at least since the first half of this year.
>
> What else do people use for minimum hassle flac ripping?

I use abcde[0]. It's just a little magic box that does what it's told,
either through its config file, command line parameters, an
interactive CLI or a combination of some/all of those things.

[0]: http://lly.org/~rcw/abcde/page/

>
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> Cheers,
> Hal
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> *Broke Completely and won't-be-fixed on debian stable seemingly due to using musicbrainz who had new and exciting ideas on how to do feature upgrades without reverse compatibility, despite large scale client deployment out of their control. Broken Completely on Fedora 15 if you are trying to rip something that you bought which has multiple cds. Eg Glenn Gould's complete performances of Bach's Goldberg Variations - both the 1955 & 1981 recordings. Sound juicer thinks it's one disk and will happily rip all 62 tracks from the first disk despite there being rather less tracks on the disk(!), basically no way to get the second & third disks to line up with track names. Manual entering has some rather wonderful issues like 20 absolutely correctly named tracks with no typos, not one, that turn out to be 20 renames of track 1. Oh and silly stuff like escaping the special chars? Well they apply that function to the string before appending "Disc 1 - " to it, spaces and all. "Disc 1 - 1_-_Track_name.flac" I used to fix these kinds of bugs in gnome and leave patches on a relevant bugzilla entry with behaviour descriptions and so on ensuring the patch was in the right format with the correct indentation for the project but gnome maintaining seems pretty broken so those don't get noticed, let alone reviewed or dog forbid, the trivial one-liner that actually fixes a bug and is exceedingly unlikely to have unintended consequences actually trivially applied… Note properly reasoned rejection is maintaining - it might be bad maintaining or good but at least it's Open Source maintaining. Anyone else disillusioned by the Open model? The fact of these bugs, none of which you'd think was a hugely difficult fix, for so long suggests that maybe it's not just me? Everyone just torrents flags of the stuff in their collections nowadays?
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