-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 05 July 2002 6:25 pm, Rainer wrote: > Asked this question previously, with very little detail supplied as a > response - only what apps could be used. this is a newbie mailing > list, right? > > right now i got ripperX-2.1-1.i386.rpm, will this work on man. 8.2. > if there is something better, please let me know (and where i can > find it). once that is settled i, -ivh the rpm from the command line? > i can then find it where, /bin ? from there i can make a shortcut to > the desktop? this is a gui app, i'm told, is it pretty > straightforward to use for someone coming from windows and musicmatch > or is there something i should know. the 'how to' made it seem pretty > simple?
There's probably a better application installed by default - look in the K menu for What to do | Enjoy music & video | Rip a CD. This runs grip, which is a very nice ripper. All you do is put the CD in the drive, select the tracks to be ripped from the Track tab, then select the Rip tab and press Rip+Encode. (Because of the way ripping is done in Linux it dumps the CD contents to [uncompressed] WAV files then converts them to [compressed] MP3; if you press Rip you'll just get WAVs]. There's a useful change worth doing to the default configuration, though, namely changing the rip format from MP3 to OGG (Ogg Vorbis), which gives you smaller but better-quality rips. To do this in grip, select the Config tab, then the MP3 tab, then the Encoder tab, then change the Encoder: pulldown to oggenc, then rip as before. This is worthwhile reading about Ogg Vorbis: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/index.html Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9Jdh9Cv59vFiSU4YRAh1SAJ45i9fFplIS77P8kKmFw3bdzeCbHACdHuhx 37obsrNPW36JFSPjho8UDpc= =BP83 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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