Ripping MP3s in BSD

LiquidPC writes: "ONLamp.com's Big Scary Daemon Section has a new article on how to rip MP3s using tools found in the FreeBSD ports tree."

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Re:"BSD"

[little_fluffy_clouds]

The topic IS OS specific. It is mostly about using ripit, a perl script, on FreeBSD. It apparently can be installed from ports. NetBSD has 'ports', but it refers to the different archs that can run it. Ok, so I let that one slide and I s/ports/pkgsrc. Ripit is not in pkgsrc. I could perhaps get it working and pkg it up just so I could use that article ? No, I'm much more likely to use cdparanoia or something which is already in pkgsrc. But the article does not mention cdparanoia.

And the other little things. The cd device is different under between FreeBSD and NetBSD, so if I tried to follow his instructions, I would not get very far.

So, it's value to me as a NetBSD user ? Not a lot. The article may as well just be titled 'Ripping MP3s in UNIX' for all I care. A suggested title would be 'Ripping Audio under FreeBSD using Ripit'.

Also, you say FreeBSD and OpenBSD don't have the 'new style' init scripts 'yet' ? I assume you refer to /etc/rc.d on NetBSD 1.5 and greater, and if so - it has already been established that OpenBSD at least will not be getting them. Unless things have changed since Theo last said 'no'.