On Saturday 26 March 2005 10:50, Derek Jennings wrote: > On Saturday 26 March 2005 00:51, Paul Kaplan wrote: > > Can anyone recommend a program for copying individual tracks from an > > audio cd to a hard drive? What about file format for storing the files > > in? What about converting between audio file formats? > > > > TIA > > Paul > > Grip is best if you want to rip files from CD, but konqueror also can be > very useful. > Press the 'services' button in your konqueror sidebar and you will see the > 'Audio CD browser' (If you cannot see the sidebar hit F9 ) > > From the audio CD browser you can drag and drop audio files from the CD > in .wav, .ogg, or .mp3 format. > > Note: Because mp3 is covered by patent Mandrake does not support creating > mp3's out of the box. You will have to declare a urpmi source for 'plf' by > going to http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ and install the lame and liblame0 > packages. > > > As for file formats, as I mention above mp3 is covered by patent and any > time you use it a gentleman from the Fraunhofer institute is entitled to > turn up on your doorstep demanding money. So us geeky open source types > prefer .ogg. It is 'free' software and better quality than mp3 anyway. > http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/4416 > > To convert between file formats there is a neat command line utility called > 'sox' Install the sox package and then enter #sox in the url line of > konqueror for instructions. > > derek Derek, You have just made my 14 yr old daughter a very, very happy girl;) Somehow I always had to help her out with grip.
Slick, how easy the d&d works. Never stumbled across that feature, myself. -- Good luck, HarM
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