CDDB for music
 

I am still expierementing with Grip to find all the configuration that I like best. I'm thinking of going from 192 kb/s to 320 kb/s. Because of this, I have configured Grip to keep the wav files and not delete them because I won't always have the CDs around to rip them again. I usually keep them at work. I've been having a problem getting Grip to get the CDDB music information for my CDs even though I haven't changed the configuration for that, and it should all be set right to do that. How can I encode music in Grip that has already been ripped by Grip using cdparanoia? If there is a good program to do it that will query a CDDB and use that information then I will look into it. I will only consider a using a script if it's well known and works good. No offense to anybody. Thanks for reading.

CDDB returns information based on a unique 'discid' created by a formula which uses the CD table of contents. If the disc is not there to calculate said discid, it is impossible to retrieve any information...

I suggest reconfiguring your Grip to do the cddb lookup the first time you rip the tracks to wav. If you cannot get it to work, then use a better ripper. cdda2wav is cddb enabled. Kaudiocreator is one for KDE. ripperX is another alternative, but it has always acted flaky for me.

If you know of no such script and need to ask here, what point is there in requiring that it is "well known"? If someone other than you knows about it does that make it well known? The script linked to in my sig works good enough for me, but you will have to name and tag the files manually because of the issue I mentioned earlier.

EasyTag allows you to submit a CDDB query from an album of encoded files - it'll use the track times to calculate the CD's id (the track names must be numbered in the correct order) - a really excellent tagging app. It can also get tags from filenames with an appropriate mask.

Once you have wav files there's no real need for grip - it should be simple enough to encode with lame/oggenc/whatever from the shell... and once you can do that then why not just run cdparanoia from the command line too? ;)

*edit* Something like:

$ for i in *.wav; do lame [options] $i `basename $i .wav`.mp3; done

...to encode the wavs.