On 2003-11-19 17:16:31 +0000 Ben Francis ben@franci5.fsnet.co.uk wrote:
Btw, since this thread started, I've started using grip to rip CD's and encode them to ogg vorbis, and I love it :)
You might want to give jack a spin, sometime... not got all the fluffy GUI front end, but a nice simple, command line util with a set of progress bars as it rips, default config from debian is to encode oggs, which is nice... the first time it runs it'll set up a ~/.jackrc file, which you may want to edit... when you want to rip something, connect to the interweb (purely for the freedb lookup), plonk the cd in the drive, jack -Q, and watch it rip the CD. It's what I tend to use (screened) so that I can rip remotely, if needs be, and so that I don't rely on X staying alive ;) Also, you can edit the jack.freedb file after it's finished, and using jack -R have it magically retag and rename the tracks (useful in the event that the freedb data is wrong or if the CD isn't in freedb).
Just my 2ps worth,
Brett.