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Date:      Wed, 5 Sep 2001 20:28:48 -0400
From:      Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>
To:        Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
Cc:        multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ripping a CD to .mp3???
Message-ID:  <20010905202848.A34092@blackhelicopters.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010904203522.A15112@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>; from brooks@one-eyed-alien.net on Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 08:35:22PM -0700
References:  <20010904233016.A30323@blackhelicopters.org> <20010904203522.A15112@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>

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On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 08:35:22PM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote:
> I haven't used it myself, but a friend of mine had good luck with
> ports/audio/ripit.  From the description:
> 
> ripit
> -----
> 
> ripit is a small front-end program written in perl for ripping,
> encoding & tagging MP3s. It is a console program that needs no user
> intervention. It requires tosha, bladeenc and xmcd (for CDDB access).
> 
> WWW: http://www.bigfoot.com/~simon.quinn/ripit.html

Well, I solved this problem, sort of.  Long tedious explanation of why
this is problematic for new users follows.

I'm trying to rip on a Toshiba laptop, IDE drive.  I tried ripit
before the prior message, and it failed.

The main problem is this:

the xmcd port has been upgraded to version 3.0.2 by kris, for security
reasons.  The toc file output in the new version looks like this.

pedicular~;more /tmp/cdtoc.cdrom 
Disc ID: rock 9110da0a *
Noise Unit / Decoder

 01 06:00  Bahnhof*
 02 07:54  Innerchaos*
 03 06:12  Protector*
 04 08:40  Paradise (Dis)*
 05 05:17  Firing Line*
 06 08:36  Escape*
 07 07:10  Elixure*
 08 09:38  Biosphere*
 09 06:21  Ascent*
 10 06:06  Falling*

Total Time: 71:56
pedicular~;

The new version has output that looks like this:


Genre: Rock -> General Rock *
Front Line Assembly / Tactical Neural Implant

 01 06:03  Final Impact*
 02 05:51  The Blade*
 03 05:04  Mindphaser*
 04 05:46  Remorse*
 05 05:26  Bio-Mechanic*
 06 05:23  Outcast*
 07 06:22  Gun*
 08 05:09  Lifeline*

Total Time: 45:06

Note the lack of a "Disc ID" line.  (Yes, I know, different albums,
but you get the idea.)

ripit.pl specifically requires this "Disc ID" line.

Joe Doofus (i.e., me) doesn't want to spend much time on this; he just
wants to shove a CD into the tray, type "ripit", and have everything
labeled and ready to go in nice directories stored by artist and album
name.  I might be wrong, but it appears that 4.4 will be shipping
without a means of doing this.

The methods other people described work, but not prettily.  (dd piped
to lame wins on general coolness, by the way, although I got a lot of
noise doing that.)

Now, ripit.pl has been upgraded to version 2.0, which seems to require
CDDB_get, which doesn't appear to work on FreeBSD.  I don't think
we're going to get fixes to the current ported version.

Just thought you'd like to know.  My next column is going to have
quite an MP3 adventure in it after all this...


-- 
Michael Lucas
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