[SOLVED] Is there a reliable CD audio ripping solution for Linux?

Turbocapitalist · 02-28-2021, 04:21 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gad

Good question, copied CD/DVD's tend to get damaged over time even if not used at all

In all cases, the longevity depends on the storage conditions. It's just that some media will degrade in a more noticeable time scale if stored poorly. Heat, humidty, and chemicals in the air will ruin all types of CDs much faster.

In good conditions, CD-R will last up to about 5 or so years, starting from date of production. So the clock starts ticking before the discs have even left the loading dock at the factory. If I recall correctly CD-RW and CD+RW can last 5 to 10 years, in good conditions.

Stamped / pressed CDs can last a few decades, give or take, depending on storage conditions, including air pollution.

So what ever the medium, if the discs have retained their integrity, they should be rippable.

One tool I have not seen mentioned yet in this thread is Sound-Juicer. I have used that to rip to FLAC and in many cases it will even fetch the associated metadata to embed in the file so that it does not have to be (re-)keyed in. The one big downside to Sound-Juicer is that there is no easy way to both enter track metadata and upload it to MusicBrainz.

Hammett · 02-28-2021, 04:23 AM

I used cdparanoia in the past and had no issues.

The problem OP has could also be related to the CD buffer waiting to be filled. I used to have problems when burning CDs with that, but it was in 2003 where ATA133 was still king, so....

Emerson · 02-28-2021, 04:47 AM

So many posters are ignoring the fact these CD's read fine under another operating system.

leclerc78 · 02-28-2021, 04:53 PM

Another vote for k3b.
My collection of CD's was all ripped, and ISO's don't need to be burned anymore - so k3b is expendable for me. Time changed.

dugan · 02-28-2021, 06:28 PM

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Originally Posted by FrizzledOldButt

Currently I'm finding the only consistently reliable solution is to boot into Windows and use one of the many options available on it.

I'm curious as to what result you get running these in WINE.

dugan · 02-28-2021, 06:34 PM

I hope I can give advice you didn't ask for: use this to tag the collection.

https://beets.io/

fatmac · 03-01-2021, 04:33 AM

I used cdparanoia to do the majority of mine at the command line.

pan64 · 03-01-2021, 05:28 AM

I guess every cd ripper should work the same way. If it works on windows but not on linux: it is a device driver related problem. Probably the old hardware is not supported on the new kernels. But without logs or additional info hard to say more.
https://www.slant.co/topics/2443/~be...pers-for-linux

m.a.l.'s pa · 03-01-2021, 06:12 AM

Hundreds of old CDs here. I've had better luck with some Linux apps than others, especially with some of the older discs. So, try a few different apps, I'd say. Thread title is "Is there a reliable CD audio ripping solution for Linux?" and a lot of us have found something that works well for us. So, "Yes." I mentioned Asunder, which has been helpful here for a bunch of "homemade" CDs, audio recorded onto blank CD-Rs.

The "store-bought" CDs have lasted longer here than some of the homemade ones. I've kept decent care of them, but at one point some years back I screwed up some of the homemade ones -- moisture causes "CD rot", apparently, and it starts at the outer edges of the disc, so it's the last songs on the disc that get affected first.

But overall they've held up quite well over time. I'm still playing quite a few that are well over 20 years old. I did get most of my CDs ripped and saved to the computer, especially during the past year, right? I rip to .ogg format and haven't used FLAC. One thing I found kinda by accident is that I could rip CDs from within Dolphin, in Kubuntu. I used that approach for a bunch of discs.

Emerson · 03-01-2021, 06:53 AM

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Originally Posted by pan64

I guess every cd ripper should work the same way. If it works on windows but not on linux: it is a device driver related problem. Probably the old hardware is not supported on the new kernels. But without logs or additional info hard to say more.
https://www.slant.co/topics/2443/~be...pers-for-linux

Yes, and I thought maybe SATA controller is in IDE mode, but OP hasn't reacted to this.

m.a.l.'s pa · 03-01-2021, 07:42 AM

The OP said this is on three PCs.

Emerson · 03-01-2021, 07:59 AM

All three in IDE mode? It used to be the default mode when Windows install wasn't possible in AHCI mode.

mark_alfred · 03-01-2021, 09:07 AM

I found this when doing a search on options with ffmpeg. So perhaps the following would work:

Code:

ffmpeg -f libcdio -ss 0 -i /dev/sr0 dump.flac

teckk · 03-01-2021, 12:39 PM

If ffmpeg is compiled with libcdio. It isn't on arch.

Code:

mplayer cdda://1 -demuxer rawaudio -vc dummy -vo null -ao pcm:file=track1.wav
mplayer cdda://1 -ao pcm:file=file1.wav
ffmpeg -f libcdio -i /dev/sr0 file1.wav
cdparanoia 1

Or you can make an .bin out of the CD. I haven't done it for a while.

Code:

cdrdao disk-info
cdrdao read-cd --device <ID> --read-raw --datafile abc.bin abc.toc
dd if=abc.bin of=final.bin conv=swab

Then mplayer will play the bin file

Code:

mplayer -demuxer rawaudio final.bin

Make a new CD from it.

Code:

cdrdao write --device <ID> --swap abc.toc

If you want to make .cue file

Code:

toc2cue abc.toc abc.cue

I haven't messed with CD's for a while. Test those first.

Emerson · 03-01-2021, 02:06 PM

The problem OP is (was?) having was first CD did read properly, but second or third hung. Like there was no reset to the CD drive. Two thirds of posts in this thread are not even close to address the issue.