Audiograbber with Wine

neranjana · 01-26-2004, 03:26 AM

Hi

Has anybody installed and run Audiograbber on Wine? When I tried to install Audiograbber I got an error message saying installer is currupt. But I had installed the same thing on Windows 2000 and it works. If someone has managed to run Audiograbber on Linux, please tell me how. So far I have only managed to run Windows notepad on Wine. Nothing else works.

Thanks

Neranjana

TheCoffeeMug · 01-26-2004, 06:34 AM

If you are looking for a good ripping program, please look at Grip

It's really good - much better than that commercial crap

http://nostatic.org/grip/

acid_kewpie · 01-26-2004, 06:50 AM

neranjana if you're looking to use wine for all your favourite applciations then you're never ever going to get the best out of linux. there is a vast array of native programs, and you'd do well to look at them. wine is not a cure all.

neranjana · 01-26-2004, 07:52 PM

I tried Grip. But there are a few things that are very difficult to do with Grip. Things like normalizing. With Audiograbber you can just normalize to 90% (peak or average) but with Grip I think you need all the files in your collection to do that. Anyway I think I have a problem of configuring Wine. I need to find out how to configure Wine properly.

mikshaw · 01-26-2004, 08:00 PM

Audiograbber, even running on Windows, has a really poor compression algorith...algor...thing.
If you want to get good quality rips, you'd really be better off using something that will utilize a decent encoder like LAME, which can be tweaked heavily to your taste.
I've been using dekagen (frontend for cdparanoia/LAME) for a while, and found it to be a good balance of ease and flexibility.

zokik · 01-27-2004, 08:18 AM

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Things like normalizing. With Audiograbber you can just normalize to 90% (peak or average)

You should avoid normalizing anyway because it adds additional distortion to original sound. Use replaygain instead:
mp3gain for mp3
vorbisgain for ogg vorbis

Besides, most linux rippers use the cdparanoia library which is in general much better (more secure) than audiograbber or most other windows rippers.
If you don't like grip there's also other progs, though I prefer grip or ripperx.

neranjana · 01-27-2004, 08:22 PM

MP3gain looks good. But it's a DOS program isn't it? Would it work under Wine in Linux? Anyway I'll try it out.

Thanks

zokik · 01-28-2004, 05:25 AM

Download the source for command-line back end and compile it, you'll get a native linux program.
Unfortunately the gui is for windows only but once you get used to command-line you'll see it can be even easier.

Hiper · 01-28-2004, 11:49 AM

you might also want to check this out:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=106990

zokik · 01-28-2004, 12:02 PM

Yeah, that audiocd:/ is really cool and easy to use but I have no idea how it rips tracks. I'm almost sure it doesn't use cdparanoia which is by far the most secure linux ripper. It doesn't use cdda2wav either, maybe konqueror has some internal utilities for that - perhaps even internal cdparanoia like grip has.

neranjana · 02-01-2004, 03:16 AM

Command line mp3gain for DOS works on wine. It did something to my mp3 files and the out put showed the gain. I am not exactly sure whether it did what it is supposed to do or not but it did something. So it's great. Thanks.

neranjana · 02-01-2004, 08:38 PM

I checked the mp3 files mp3gain modified. It seems it has done its job well.

krock923 · 07-31-2004, 10:43 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by zokik
Download the source for command-line back end and compile it, you'll get a native linux program.
Unfortunately the gui is for windows only but once you get used to command-line you'll see it can be even easier.

can someone explain to me how i would do this? I use mp3gain in windows but that computer is a very old 133mhz. I'd like to use it linux but I don't know how.