Re: ripping software

2003-10-01 Thread Kevin D. Clark
"Travis Roy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Installing extra software, like what? If you're running RH9 how hard is it > to type: > > rpm -Uvh http://www.xmms.org/files/1.2.x/rpm/rh9.x/xmms-1.2.8-1.i386.rpm > > That's really a hassle? It's not a hassle for me, I guess. (although I love the li

RE: ripping software

2003-10-01 Thread Travis Roy
> Maybe I should consider using Ogg for my encoding format. It *is* a > little bit irritating sitting down to work at a newly installed Linux > box only to find out that I can't play my music because of patent > issues (or, at least, not without installing extra software). Installing extra softwa

Re: ripping software

2003-10-01 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Maybe I should consider using Ogg for my encoding format. It *is* a little bit irritating sitting down to work at a newly installed Linux box only to find out that I can't play my music because of patent issues (or, at least, not without installing extra software). Regards, --kevin -- perl -pe

Re: ripping software

2003-09-30 Thread Tom Fogal
*quietly recommends ogg's and 'abcde' - a better CD encoder.* it's on freshmeat. IMHO, oggs > mp3s because theyre more open, and abcde is great because its easy to configure to your naming scheme, and all cmd-line based =) anyway, just my $0.02... -tom > > Recently I wanted to rip some of my C

Re: ripping software

2003-09-29 Thread Travis Roy
Does ID3 and ID3v2 tags while it's at it. What are these? If you have an MP3 player (WinAmp, XMMS, iTunes) that can read them they give you a bunch of info on the song and the info is stored within the MP3 file. Basically it's Artist, Album, Song, Year, and a bunch of other stuff, ID3v2 is the s

Re: ripping software

2003-09-29 Thread Kevin D. Clark
[PLEASE DON'T TOPQUOTE] Travis Roy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > abcde is by far the BEST ripper I've found. It's basically a front end > for other utils but it's -GREAT-. Yes, this is what the utility I found does too. [snip] > Does ID3 and ID3v2 tags while it's at it. What are these? Th

Re: ripping software

2003-09-29 Thread Travis Roy
http://www.hispalinux.es/~data/abcde.php abcde is by far the BEST ripper I've found. It's basically a front end for other utils but it's -GREAT-. The default is OGG but you can change that (I have a portable player). It's easy, once you configure how you want stuff to be organized you just put

ripping software

2003-09-29 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Recently I wanted to rip some of my CDs to mp3 format. Being a "command-line" sort of person, and also being impatient, I wondered "hasn't anybody created a command-line utility to rip CD'S to mp3's that is smart enough to know about CDDB?". Perhaps this is a silly question, perhaps everybody an