Ripping problems in JJ

[joneall]

Apparently, Kaudiocreator is not (yet) available for JJ. (I'm in Alpha 4.)

I've tried Sound Juicer. The result is an MP3 file which only contains squeaks and scratches. Don't understand that one at all.

I've tried Ripoff. It works, but hangs every now and then. When this happens, there is nothing to do but X-out the Rip box, delete the last file, and start over with that.

So what to do for ripping (aside wait for general release)? Will we be getting Kaudiocreator?

[Rog131]

Re: Ripping problems in JJ

I tried with the K3b - it has a "Rip Audio CD" but here with the JJ it can't rip to the mp3:

Command failed: lame -h --tt...
Error while encoding track 1

With the older Kubuntu there are no problems. Jaunty K3b rip is working to the ogg-vorbis.


The repositories have RipIT (package: ripit):

ripit runs in text mode (no fancy GUI here) and does everything required to
produce a set of mp3, ogg, flac, m4a files without any user-intervention.

ripit does the following with an Audio CD:
- Get the audio CD Album/Artist/Tracks information from CDDB
- Rip the audio CD Tracks (using cdparanoia or other cdrippers)
- Encode the files (using lame, oggvorbis flac and/or faac)
- ID3 tag them (v1 & v2)
- Optional: creates a playlist (M3U) file (lists MP3s created,
used by various MP3 players)
- Optional: Prepares and sends a CDDB submission.
- Optional: Saves the CDDB file.

Homepage:http://www.suwald.com/ripit/ripit.html

It is working fine BUT the repo version is 3.6.0-1 and the RipIT homepage tells:

INFO
As of lame 3.98 released July 2008 the genres feature behaves different than before. A fix has been implemented in RipIT version 3.6.1.

Jaunty has the lame 3.98.

Maybe /1/ that is the reason for the RipIT stopping to the genre query:

Genre Rock is not ID3v2 compliant!
Use "lame --genre-list" to get a list!

Please enter a valid CDDB genre (or none):

A workaround was to start the ripit with an override:

ripit -g ""

man ripit

NAME:
ripit - Perl script to create .flac .ogg .mp3 or .m4a (aac) files from an audio CD.

SYNOPSIS:
ripit [options]

-g, --genre genre
Specify (and override CDDB) genre, must be a valid ID3-genre if using Lame, can (but shouldn’t)
be anything if using other encoders, default: not set.

With the default settings the RipIT is ripping:

Audio
Format : MPEG Audio
Format version : Version 1
Format profile : Layer 3
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 128 Kbps
Minimum bit rate : 128 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 44.1 KHz
Resolution : 16 bits
Writing library : LAME3.98
Encoding settings : CBR

/1/ https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...it/+bug/305884

Downloading the sources from the RipIT homepage, the latest version is ripit-3.7.0-beta20090220. Seems to work without problems - dropping sources to the PPA.

> PPA

Personal Package Archives (PPA) allow you to upload Ubuntu source packages to be built and published as an apt repository by Launchpad. You can find out more about PPAs and how to use them in our quick-start guide.

.deb's can be found > Show PPAs matching: ripit

[Rog131]

Re: Ripping problems in JJ

Bill Lugg (luggw1) has made great work and digged right settings to the K3b-lame > Re: Using K3b to Rip CDs

[joneall]

Re: Ripping problems in JJ

I tried with "Swap Byte Order" and "Write Wave Header" set. It still doesn't work.

I'm at JJ alpha 5 or 6. (I installed alpha 4 and have been doing regular upgrades.)

Any other ideas?

[andybleaden]

Re: Ripping problems in JJ

I use soundkonvertor without any problems but I do have to install lame as well

[joneall]

Re: Ripping problems in JJ

I just tried soundKonverter. I already had lame installed.

It comes up with a list of tracks on my audio CD, all of them in "Waiting" state. When I click on "Start", it quickly runs throught the list (turning each line red for an instant), then stops and waits. Nothing has been written to the output directory.

I looked at the log, which contains this for each track:

Name of track
Mime Type: application/x-cda
Tags successfully read
Executing next step
Ripping
Removing file from conversion list. Exit code 1

Huh?

If I click on "Add files" (I don't know what else to do -- I can't find any doc at all except for compilation and installation, WHICH SHOULD NEVER HAPPEN!), it tells me "Malformed URL media:/scd0". Dolphin (or Krusader) shows no such directory or URL. Indeed, I can't find the audio files anywhere, although soundKonverter has somehow found the names of them.

I do not at all understand what is going on.

Help!

[andybleaden]

Re: Ripping problems in JJ

Ensure that you have all the plug ins enabled for it such as cdripper etc

Go into settings and back ends and have a look there

[joneall]

Re: Ripping problems in JJ

In plugins, there's a long list of modules, including cdda2wav and cdparanoia and lame, all of which are installed and which it has found, as it says in the environment section. Those three are also in my PATH. Backends shows, e.g., lame for mp3. I don't see anything odd, but then I don't really know what I'm looking for either.

I just tried again and I realize I don't understand it's logging system either. Logs include a bunch of files with names like nnnnnnnnn.log (e.g. 1215807335.log) and one called 1000.log. 1215807335.log contains

Mime Type: application/x-cda
Tags successfully read
Executing next step
Ripping
Removing file from conversion list. Exit code 1

but 1000.log is very long, starting with

Mime Type: application/x-cda
Tags successfully read
Executing next step
Ripping
Removing file from conversion list. Exit code 1
Finished loggingjon@jon-desktop:~/.kde/share/apps/soundkonverter/log$ head 1000.log
This is soundKonverter 0.3.7
MP4v2 is disabled
entering: `Config::loadPlugins()'
searching directory: `/usr/share/apps/soundkonverter/plugins/'
found file: `110.oggvorbis.soundkonverter.xml'
updating version for: `110.oggvorbis'
found file: `120.lame.soundkonverter.xml'
updating version for: `120.lame'
found file: `122.twolame.soundkonverter.xml'
updating version for: `122.twolame'
...

and ending with

...
save file list: 8
Adding new item to conversion list: `/home/jon/17 - Unknown.cda'
Got log ID: 1220866371
save file list: 9
Adding new item to conversion list: `/home/jon/18 - Unknown.cda'
Got log ID: 494685744
save file list: 8
Adding new item to conversion list: `/home/jon/19 - Unknown.cda'
Got log ID: 1692982380
save file list: 10

It's talkative, but I have no idea what it's telling me. Seems a trifle complex.

I find it odd that none of the ripping tools I try work, but all seem to fail for different reasons.

I hope you have some more ideas. Many thanks.