Software recommendation for ripping CDs

[mr_raider]

I want to digitize my CD collection before it disintegrates. Can anyone recommend software to automate ripping, encoding, and tagging the songs by name?

[Snowhog]

CDRipping

Sound-Juicer. Gnome-based, but....

At the end are other suggestions.

[life0riley]

RubyRipper was my favorite when I had Ubuntu 10.04 LTS with Gnome2. There are some KDE choices if you don't want to install Gnome dependencies.

I have Audex installed but haven't done anything with it yet. Here are a couple URLs for that.
https://userbase.kde.org/Audex
http://kde.maniatek.com/audex/

ABCDE looks like an interesting command line option.

Both Audex and ABCDE are in the software repositories for Kubuntu.

[mr_raider]

What format do you guys suggest?

Space is not an issue, so either FLAC for quality or CBR 320kbps MP3 for max xompatibility in my Volvo.

[life0riley]

I use MP3 because it is compatible with my devices.

[vinnywright]

What format do you guys suggest?

Space is not an issue, so either FLAC for quality or CBR 320kbps MP3 for max xompatibility in my Volvo.

FLAC if space is no prob and just for the computer(some devices do not suport FLAC )

you do not need to install anything,,,,,,,K3b will do this.

put in your cd,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,
select "extract digital audio with K3b"



the CD's meta data is allready loaded ,,,,,,,click "start ripping"



select the file type you wish to rip to,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ,,,



select the location to rip to and if you want a play list m3u ,,,,,,,,if you click that "create signal file" you will get a ,,,,,singel file that contains all the songs,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,click "start ripping"



now ,,,,,you will need to make shur you have all K3b's programs installed (all of them are not installed by default)



if you wish to do more indepth editing of meta data , tags or even adding alblem art to the file check out "Kid3"

vinny@vinnys-HP-G62:~$ apt show kid3
Package: kid3
Priority: optional
Section: universe/kde
Installed-Size: 598 kB
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>
Original-Maintainer: Debian KDE Extras Team <pkg-kde-extras@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Version: 3.0.2-4
Depends: kde-runtime, kid3-core (= 3.0.2-4), libc6 (>= 2.14), libkdecore5 (>= 4:4.5.85), libkdeui5 (>= 4:4.3.4), libkio5 (>= 4:4.3.4), libqtcore4 (>= 4:4.7.0~beta1), libqtgui4 (>= 4:4.5.3), libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1)
Download-Size: 149 kB
Homepage: http://kid3.sourceforge.net/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu
APT-Manual-Installed: yes
APT-Sources: http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe amd64 Packages
Description: KDE MP3 ID3 tag editor
 An application to edit the ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags in MP3 files in an efficient
 way. These tags can be edited by most MP3 players, but not in a very
 comfortable and efficient way. Moreover the tags in Ogg/Vorbis, FLAC, MPC, APE,
 MP4/AAC, MP2, Speex, TrueAudio, WavPack, WMA, WAV, AIFF files and tracker
 modules (MOD, S3M, IT, XM) are supported too.
 .
 Features:
  * Edit ID3v1.1 tags in your MP3 files
  * Edit all ID3v2.3 and ID3v2.4 frames in your MP3 files
  * Convert between ID3v1.1, ID3v2.3 and ID3v2.4 tags
  * Edit Ogg/Vorbis tags
  * Edit FLAC tags
  * Edit APE tags in MPC files
  * Edit tags in MP3, Ogg/Vorbis, FLAC, MPC, MP4/AAC, MP2, Speex,
    TrueAudio and WavPack files
  * Edit tags of multiple files, e.g. the artist, album, year and genre
    of all files of an album typically have the same values and can be
    set together
  * Generate tags from filenames
  * Generate filenames from tags
  * Generate playlist files
  * Automatic case conversion and string translation
  * Import and export album data
  * Import from gnudb.org, TrackType.org, MusicBrainz, Discogs
  * Export tags as CSV, HTML, playlists, Kover XML and in other formats
 .
 This package uses KDE libraries, if you do not use KDE you should use kid3-qt.

happy ripping

VINNY

[life0riley]

Thanks Vinny! Kid3 looks cool. I'll definitely check that out. I've used EasyTAG in the past.

[whatthefunk]

Ive used K3B to rip over 700 CDs without issue. Like vinny, I rip to FLAC. Note that you have to install the program flac before doing this.

sudo apt-get install flac

For meta data and the like, I do it all inside of Amarok.

[oshunluvr]

K3B here. FLAC for ripping my 400+ CDs. Hard drives space is cheap.

[mr_raider]

So far Amarok seems to be doing the job fine. I like the way you can control the file naming convention.

As for FLAC vs mp3, I've decided to make 1 copy of each. FLAC for archiving, mp3 for playing in the car.

Are their any audio players that do flac? VLC on android seems the only one.

[oshunluvr]

I use FLAC of archival storage and playing over my local network. When I'm prepping music to play in the car, I convert to mp3 via a ServiceMenu, then move the mp3's to the USB or CD.

[perspectoff]

To be honest, I don't notice any quality difference between FLAC and MP3 files, nor do I notice the difference between 192 Kb/s and 320 kb/s MP3 files (though I do notice the difference between 128 kb/s and 192 kb/s MP3 files). I have all my music (and audiobook) files as 192 kb/s MP3s, which is compatible with all my devices (I'm an old dude who doesn't want to buy new devices every few months to be compatible with the format du jour).

Because Kubuntu comes with k3b, which I use quite frequently, I merely use the built-in k3b CD ripping capability. K3b can rip to either FLAC or MP3 format.

K3b -> More actions... -> Rip audio CD -> Start Ripping -> Settings: Filetype: Mp3 (Lame) -> Start Ripping

Before ripping to MP3 I adjust (once) the MP3 quality to 192 kb/s. (The default bitrate for MP3 ripping is 128 Kb.) To change to a different bitrate for ripping, edit the k3b settings:

K3b -> More actions... -> Rip audio CD -> Start Ripping -> Settings: Filetype: Mp3 (Lame) -> Wrench icon
Configured encoders: Mp3 (lame) -> Edit... -> Command

Change the default command string from:

lame -r --bitwidth 16 --little-endian -s 44.1 -h --tt %t --ta %a --tl %m --ty %y --tc %c --tn %n - %f

to

lame -r --bitwidth 16 --little-endian -s 44.1 -b 192 --tt %t --ta %a --tl %m --ty %y --tc %c --tn %n - %f

where 192 is the desired constant bitrate.

From (K)Ubuntuguide:
http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Kubuntu_...o_CD_using_K3b

I happen to like EasyTAG for ID3 tag editing, since it allows bulk file operations (and file renaming as well).

From (K)Ubuntuguide:
http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Kubuntu_...8ID3_editor.29

[vinnywright]

So far Amarok seems to be doing the job fine. I like the way you can control the file naming convention.

As for FLAC vs mp3, I've decided to make 1 copy of each. FLAC for archiving, mp3 for playing in the car.

Are their any audio players that do flac? VLC on android seems the only one.

you can use this little goody to make mp3's out of your FLAC files ....
just copy and past it into a terminal that is in the directory that contains a FLAC rip.......

 for f in *.flac
      do 
      avconv -i "$f" -b 320k "${f%.flac}.mp3"
done

you can change the flac and mp3 parts as neaded ........say if you had a directory full of mp3's you want to have .ogg's of you would change the "flac" to mp3 and the mp3 to .ogg ............and the 320K can bee whatever bitrate you prefer .

you will wind up with Mp3's of all the FLAC's in the directory named the same as the flac it came from.

I like FLAC for archiving becose it is lossless high bitrate like the WAV it came from and can be made back into the same quality WAV-CD as the original ,,,,,once you come down in bitrate you can not go back up and have the same quality.



VINNY

[oshunluvr]

I like my way better:

[mr_raider]

Is this a downloadable service menu action?