[Discuss] CD ripping

[dsr at tao.merseine.nu (Dan Ritter)]

On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 10:08:51AM -0500, Derek Martin wrote:
> Hi gang,
> 
> What are people using for CD ripping on Linux these days?  I was
> always a big fan of Grip, but it has a bug that makes me crazy, and
> it's no longer under development so the author isn't accepting
> patches.
> 
> I've tried sound juicer in the past, but my recollection was it wasn't
> very flexible and I have had issues with it not ripping whole
> tracks... and I think additionally it has the same bug that Grip has
> (or at least a very similar one).  
> 
> On Windows I've used fubar2000, which does the job quite well, though
> I didn't care for the UI much and it requires Windows.
> 
> The grip bug is an encoding problem (with regard to text data in ID3
> tags); I've got a fix but I can't even test it because I can't get it
> to build with a modern Linux box.  I've lost patience with trying to
> make sure I have all the right versions of all the right libraries and
> tools.

Not necessarily useful to you, but grip builds just fine on
Debian stable, where it is a supported package, can get all
dependencies from repositories, and the package maintainer would
very likely take a bug fix from you.

(I use grip to rip CDs. Someday I'll even be done.)

-dsr-


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