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Ripping MP3s in BSD

Posted by michael on from the not-as-think-as-you-easy-it-is dept.

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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  1. "BSD" by little_fluffy_clouds · · Score: 1, Informative

    It would be really nice if the slashdot crowd stopped using "BSD" to mean one of the *BSD's. This article is about FreeBSD, hence the title should have said "FreeBSD". They are not the same, sometimes they are not even similar. A relevant example to this topic - the process of ripping on NetBSD is not the same as FreeBSD, as NetBSD treats all IDE drives as SCSI, hence one can use tools meant for SCSI drives on and IDE system. The same with burning as well, eg FreeBSD have 'burncd' or something in their userland specifically for IDE burners, but NetBSD can use the 'cdrecord' package on an IDE drive (which only supports SCSI burning).

    So, I implore you - specify the 'BSD' you are talking about - trust me they are not at all alike in many respects.

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    1. Re:"BSD" by little_fluffy_clouds · · Score: 2, Informative

      These two cases are not the same. Yes there are many Linux distros, but they all use the same kernel and mostly the same userland, the major exception being the binary package tools. The BSD's do NOT use the same kernel (BIG differences), and the userland is often significantly different too. Only someone who does not use the different BSD versions would call one of them in particular 'BSD'. When FreeBSD 4.4 just came out, at least Slashdot did not report that 'BSD 4.4' is out. So keep *that* up.

      Let me put it this way - articles written about FreeBSD or OpenBSD are of no interest to me, as the content is often irrelevant to what I use (NetBSD). So it is an incorrect shorthand, at best. If you are talking about FreeBSD, call it FreeBSD. Daily Daemonnews uses the term BSD correctly (which is hopefully as I have here). Slashdot does not in mant cases.

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  2. Here's how I do it by realdpk · · Score: 2, Informative

    Need to have dagrab and lame installed, and possibly some other ports. My scripts can be found at: mp3 scripts. When I want to rip a CD, I pop it in and simply run "./rip" from my mp3 dir. It takes care of the rest, including CDDB-based naming.

    No warranties or anything.