On Thursday 16 December 2004 9:58 pm, Michael A. Peters wrote:
> For listening, I have a shell script that reads the tag info,
> uncompresses to wav, and uses lame with --preset-standard and all my
> tag information to output nice tagged mp3's.
Hi,
Why don't you use grip? It will rip the tracks and encode them to mp3 if you wish (tagging them with info obtained manually or thru the freedb).
Several reasons.
I rip from Windows using EAC because EAC is undisputed the best ripping software there is. It will either rip the track perfectly, or tell you where it had a problem so that you can investigate (listen to the problem areas and determine wether or not you want to try again)
I have CD's that would not rip right in Linux (cdparanoia), iTunes, etc. that I was able to get perfect rips from with EAC.
Secondly - I rip to flac because flac is lossless and supports tagging, so I can encode to any lossy format and have the same quality as if I went straight from the CD - but I don't have to go from the CD.
Once EAC has ripped a CD, the CD goes back in jewel case, and into a box in my closet, never to be needed again.
Take a look at "normalize". I'm not sure if it comes with Fedora but that's what you need. I think it only works with wav files though.
Working with wav files is fine - I decode the flac to wav before encoding to mp3.
Thanks - I'll look at that.
