Whats the best mp3 ripper

creedog · 02-05-2006, 08:49 PM

Just got my wife an mp3 player and I need to know what you guys use to rip cds to mp3 format. Looking for something that will be able to identify song names and artists.

amosf · 02-05-2006, 08:57 PM

LAME... Use a gui front end like grip to do all the fancy stuff... Grip grabs the song details off the net and rips and calls LAME to rip. I use 160bit VBR... Sounds good...

There are other guis... like kaudiocreator... You still want LAME to do the main work....

Matir · 02-05-2006, 09:32 PM

I like grip for a frontend, which uses cdparanoia to actually rip and lame to encode to MP3.

augurseer · 02-05-2006, 09:57 PM

grip rocks for mpr and ogg, elese when running cdparanoia, clean simple and fast

cs-cam · 02-05-2006, 10:37 PM

If you menion your desktop environment we can suggest something that'll fit in nicely. I use GTK apps but don't want GNOME installed so I can't use Grip, Asunder however is very good and very lean, that is what I use

amosf · 02-05-2006, 10:44 PM

Grip doesn't need all gnome to run afaik... Just another gtk app like gimp...

Matir · 02-05-2006, 10:45 PM

Yeah, grip just depends on gtk, AFAIK.

creedog · 02-06-2006, 04:54 PM

I found that Sound Juicer is not too bad and it gets the song info off the internet. I tried grip but it did not get the song info, is their some sort of song database that I need to connect it to?

Matir · 02-06-2006, 05:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by creedog

I found that Sound Juicer is not too bad and it gets the song info off the internet. I tried grip but it did not get the song info, is their some sort of song database that I need to connect it to?

Every install of grip that I've seen automatically retrieves cddb data from FreeDB.

Synesthesia · 02-06-2006, 07:08 PM

ripperX...

cs-cam · 02-07-2006, 12:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by amosf

Grip doesn't need all gnome to run afaik... Just another gtk app like gimp...

Grip depends on gnome-vfs which in turn requires a large portion of GNOME to be installed. If you can make it build without all that installed I'd love to know how because it is better than Asunder.

Crushing Belial · 02-07-2006, 01:33 AM

I like Grip for Ogg and MP3, and Sound Juicer for FLAC.

augurseer · 02-07-2006, 10:52 AM

grip does use freedb and can have cddb adds. i dont udnerstant why grip didnt work for you but from my expo, grip is even better cause it can have ALLOT of codecs added to it, like lame, ogg, wma and the like