Hi,

I'm currently busy sanding down some rough edges at the local radio station after installing a Slackware network. Up to now, one server and four desktop clients.

I'm looking for an application that enables the user to listen to audio CD's and then rip and encode selected tracks easily. A few years ago, when I was a CentOS user, I found Grip to be perfect for that job, the more so since it was an all-in-one app (listen/rip/encode). Unfortunately it's not maintained anymore.

What do you use for the job? I'm curious about any suggestions.

cdda2wav, flac, easytag. is my workflow. So far I've not found an all-in-one ripper/encoder/tagger that I'm happy with.

Asunder seems a nice little program...

Unfortunately it's quite crash-prone.

I experimented a bit more, and (re)discovered Dolphin's ability to rip and encode on-the-fly, using the audiocd:/ KIO slave. I remembered that function from Konqueror in KDE 3.5.x. Only drawback : the ripping/encoding process is relatively slow, compared to other rippers. Any idea what that is?

I use rubyripper.

If you are after speed, its not the ripper to use, it can be fairly slow. Even if you are using ruby 1.9.X with rubyripper (with ruby 1.8.X it can be a lot slower). It also cant play tracks, so it might not be what you are after.

But as far as accurate ripping goes, its the best ripper to use on *nix systems IMO. With 2 pass ripping like rubyripper uses, its a lot harder for errors to creep in.

BTW, why would you want a single media/CD player/ripper? I'd rather have a simple media player and a simple ripper over an 'all singing, all dancing, does everything' media player/ripper myself.....

For ripping, I've stuck to "abcde" for quite a while. The fact that it's essentially command-line driven is the sweet-spot for me.

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I've been a big fan of ABCDE for years. Even published an article about it in a french Linux magazine. But this installation is not for me, it's for the local radio station, so I need a GUI. It looks like the KsCD+Dolphin combination is a winner.

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Now I'm tempted to give it a spin. Seems to use low resources, albeit a bit slowish. Built fine and now ripping the 2nd media with mp3 output. I'll keep it...

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Really? I have used Asunder from time to time - don't buy a lot of CDs, really - I have never had it crash on me.

i am still using Grip... gets the job done, sure gtk1 might not be very pretty but i am using a theme for it

My workflow is juk for listening and k3b or kaudiocreator for ripping and encoding. Neither of the later are perfect they both use cddb which doesn't quality check it's entries-it works for me though.

I wanted to build a package and give kaudiocreator a spin, but curiously enough, sources for KDE 4.10.5 are nowhere to be found. Some pages say it's in kdemultimedia, but there's no kdemultimedia tarball in 4.10.5 sources. I've looked everywhere: apps/, unstable/, extragear/, etc... nothing.

Don't you like K3b, KaudioCreator or Audex? I tried those but I had difficulty to create
different profiles, so I wrote a shell script to rip waves and encode to mp3 with cddb and cover image
The extraction and encoding is slow but is more reliable.



I think the slow encoding maybe is due to cdparanoia(or cdda2wave) setting, maybe it is to high.

I'm kinda audiophile and also using rubyripper. I ripped my whole CD collection as flac. For playing I prefer deadbeef and moc when in runlevel 3. Deadbeef is similar to foobar2000, which is supposed to be one of the best audio players in the Windows world. As a hobby musician I'm in the unconfortable situation that my preferred audio tools are not available for linux so I have to use Windows for them. And I'm not quite sure if it's my ears or my imagination but just for listening to music it always sounds better in linux.