Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 11:00:12 -0500 From: "Ben Kaduk" <minimarmot@gmail.com> To: "Michael Nottebrock" <lofi@freebsd.org>, blackend@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: audio CD's in SCSI drives -- syntax? Message-ID: <47d0403c0707210900q2978ea1ej60b5ee3516fe1f32@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <46A1F344.60901@freebsd.org> References: <47d0403c0707191450g4a80b549r6e0c2276b8fd4792@mail.gmail.com> <20070720093740.GA1002@gothic.blackend.org> <47d0403c0707200735l4bd84696jdbb829eebf92ae04@mail.gmail.com> <46A1F344.60901@freebsd.org>
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On 7/21/07, Michael Nottebrock <lofi@freebsd.org> wrote: > Ben Kaduk schrieb: > >> > >> There is another tool for ripping audio CD with SCSI drives: audio/tosha > >> I find tosha easier to use than cdda2wav, but this requires to install > >> another app and since cdda2wav is part of sysutils/cdrtools ... > > > > For now, I think I'll keep the handbook only mentioning cdda2wave -- > > the text is confused enough as is. > I think it might be worthwhile throwing out cdda2wav as the reference > tool completely and instead rewrite the tutorial to feature cdparanoia, > which is pretty much the state of the art ripping utilitiy these days > (and has been even longer on Linux), works with device names rather than > unit numbers for SCSI drives as well, does in fact not require the > specification of any device by default as it will autoscan for devices > and just use the first one it finds and finally is used as the ripping > backend by nearly all modern GUI ripping utilities. That is an interesting thought. I'm pretty sure that I used cdparanonia (and not cdda2wav) the last time I needed to rip CDs. > > The mp3 player paragraph probably could do with a rewrite as well, > although it might be hard to come up with a substitute to XMMS - not > because XMMS is so great and popular still, but mostly because there is > so much more choice now. mpg123 on the other hand is very outdated and > should probably be substituted with madplay. I will look at madplay. > > Finally, if you want to look at the big picture, the whole section 7.3 > is somewhat outdated and in need of a rewrite, given that there are > plenty of popular alternatives to mp3 available, including lossless > compressors, and mp3 itself is encumbered by that patent and the lame > port is thus restricted. It seems to me that re-dedicating section 7.3 > to CD backups (with mentioning the possible formats to backup to) might > be the way to go. Of course, that's all easy to say for me who never > writes any documentation, but just in case someone reads this and feels > inspired ... I will not argue with you that the entire section needs a re-write. I would probably prefer to call it ``audio playback and file conversion'', though (akin to ``video playback''). Marc, what do you think? -Ben Kaduk > > Cheers, > -- > ,_, | Michael Nottebrock | lofi@freebsd.org > (/^ ^\) | FreeBSD - The Power to Serve | http://www.freebsd.org > \u/ | K Desktop Environment on FreeBSD | http://freebsd.kde.org > > > >
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