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TheKompany: tkcOggRipper: Easy-to-use Ogg Vorbis C
GonzoJohn writes "Looks like TheKompany has released an ogg rippoer for CDs: "tkcOggRipper is a freely available (but not GPL) program for easily and conveniently ripping CDs into the Ogg Vorbis format. If you are not familiar with Ogg Vorbis, it is available from Xiph (www.xiph.org). It compresses smaller and creates higher fidelity files than MP3. Ogg Vorbis also doesn't have any license time bombs or restrictions associated with it as MP3 does. You can look here to see what we mean. MP3 royalties will cost you either directly as a producer or indirectly as a consumer. One problem with Ogg Vorbis has been a lack of easy to use tools for ripping CDs into the Ogg Vorbis format -- they were confusing or command line based. This led us to write tkcOggRipper, which couldn't be more easy to use. Pop in a CD, pick an ouput directory and select a "Quality" setting, and go. tkcOggRipper is currently available for Linux and Windows, and we hope to release a version for Mac OS X soon."
I dunno, why not use one of the many existing tools like Grip (my favorite) that will let you plug in any CD ripper or encoder out there (Ogg has been supported forever)? If you search Freshmeat you'll find a lot of them, most of which are open source in some fashion.
Is your browser retarded?
Yeah, because GRIP was such a pain in the butt to use.
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> You can look here to see what we mean.
Where is here?
http://www.teknofile.org/
They obviously expect this to be a hit.
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Xmms have a plugin that let you burn your cd to ogg format. The good thing with that is that plugin connect to CDDB to retrieve the name of the songs. The only thing you have to do is change the output pluging in the option to ogg, select a default folder and click on the play button ! Really simple and work very well Here are the link... XMMS
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I love using KDE's audiocd:/ io-slave to rip MP3 or OGG. Just type 'audiocd:/' into konq and drag the tracks to a directory, instant ripping.
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lemme see. $0.50 fee for a decoder chip. similar for an encoder. thats one whole dollar. a few dollars if i have several decoders.
.wav files).
now compare that to the cost of the inconvenience caused by none of my cheap commercially available players supporting ogg vorbis.
its a no brainer. there is no point in ripping to ogg unless you have unlimited disk space and cpu to rip to both (in which case why not rip to
We need an Ogg Vorbis ripper, not a "ogg rippoer"!
mp3 is not free and ogg is. However, mp3 doesn't cost me anything. I use winamp and cdex. That's really all i need to fit all my mp3 needs, encoding, decoding, playing. All for free. So even though it's not technically free I don't care.
Also from an audio quality standpoint ogg does have higher quality audio at lower bitrates. Which allows you to save hard drive space and retain audio quality. But you know what? I don't care about hard drive space. I've got a 40 gigabyte drive I fill up with videos and mp3s. If I need something to be high quality I'll encode it with 128-320 VBR0 quality = best. Even better I'll just make a 320kbps mp3.
And for you crazy audiophiles. I can tell the difference between a 128kbps mp3 and a CD. It's very apparent that a lot of sound is missing. But my ears are good, and a 320kbps mp3 might as well be a CD. If you can tell the difference between the highest quality mp3 and the higest quality ogg, you deserve a medal, because you have better ears than any other human being on earth.
So unless you are a dog, bird, or superman with super hearing. Who cares if you use ogg or mp3? It all depends on whether your disk space/quality preference. I personally couldn't care less. A high bitrate mp3 is small enough. At least it's smaller than a 40MB wav.
So stop the ogg/mp3 wars. It's personal preference, give it up.
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dude grip is the coolest http://www.nostatic.org/grip/
Uhm, shouldn't this be a freshmeat story?
Since when is a GUI frontend "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters"?
... urrrm ... written a front end for "grep" can I get a story posted aswell?
I have
Has anyone got a mirror up and running yet?
If not send me the file and I will be willing to mirror it (up to the bandwith cap on my ftp account).
I tried to run it on Mandrake 9.0 RC3, but it segfaults after doing the first track.
function rip () /dev/cdrom
{
local width div last;
if [ $# -ne 1 ]; then
echo "usage: rip file-name-prefix";
echo "ex: rip var-Devils_Blues-";
return 1;
fi;
last=$(cdparanoia -Q 2>&1 | grep -B1 TOTAL | head -1 | sed 's/^ *\([0-9][0-9]*\).*$/\1/');
width=1;
div=$last;
while [[ $div -ge 10 ]]; do
width=$((width+1));
div=$(( $div / 10 ));
done;
echo "Last: $last, width: $width";
for i in $(seq -f "%0$width.0f" 1 $last);
do
cdparanoia -q -r -- $i - | oggenc -Q -q5 --raw --output=$1$i.ogg -;
done;
eject
}
Then "rip Band-Album-" No pretty pictures, but awfully easy.
Please people some body mirror that file.
I'm at work (on windows machine) and want to try out the windows version noq.
oooh those really hard command line commands are really really hard.
If you have abcde installed (on debian at least) it defaults to using ogg as the media type. The command to run it is not quite as simple as abc, but is exactly 'abcde'. just change to the dir that you want the rip to end up in and run one command and it cddb's, rips, encodes, tags and cleans up after itself.
I'm all for making things easier for the user, but we should be looking at things that are really hard to do on the command line, or things that have awful command options.
CDEX is possibly the best CD ripping program out there, and certainly one of the more popular!
It has excelent support for ogg and mp3 files!
Yes, yes... it's for win32. A platform is a platform is a platform. Anyone care to port it to Linux? (It's already GPL)
Is a tool to let us burn an audio CD from ogg files. I haven't seen that anywhere yet. Actually, I'd prefer a hardware solution; a CD player that will play an ogg-format music disc.
Nothing to see here. Move along.
It doesn't have settings to use a proxy when connecting to FreeDB. Useless for me. Useless for anyone who rips music at work behind a proxy (mine requires authentication, as well).
My mind works like lightning. One brilliant flash and it is gone.
Ogg is great. I like it. But what good is it to most people if they can't play it on their portable, car, or home audio system?
I understand this is because the codec requires a math coprocessor, which none of these things have, or ever will.
I finally managed to download it last night.
Installed it on two Win2k machines at work....
Couldn't get either to connect to freedb.
It hung on one machine completely.
On the other I managed to rip a cd, and every song had an extra second of time on it and a noticable ticking artifact in the music every half second or so all the way through the song.
Yeah, I *may* be able to google it, but I only stumbled upon the same thing for mp3s by sheer luck, with no info from codec people and/or player people.
Can ogg do variable bitrate? mp3, for example, at least with several major players, can encode different parts of a single mp3 at different bitrates. The idea is, more bits for more 'intense' music. It saves space by not using 320kbps on bits of silence, while giving good quality on parts of the music that have a lot of stuff going on.
I'm still only about a third of the way through ripping my cd library to my server (Note for Imperial RIAA Praetorian: Home server, not linked to the network, and amazingly, going to my workstation alone.).. People keep whining at me to switch to Ogg because of the entire free thing, but eh. If I could do variable bitrate in Ogg, that'd certainly go a long way in convincing me to switch.
I don't under stand why they aren't releasing the source. From the link:
"We aren't trying to get anything out of giving this application away other than try to get more people using Ogg Vorbis."
Also from their site:
"We at TheKompany.com are proud to fully support and participate in the open source movement. We hope you will join us in actively helping to make open source work and make Linux continue on its rise to being the premiere operating system for any computer and any user."
Then why not release the source so the community can and improve use this? If you don't like freedom go back to MP3 and their patents, Krummy Kompany.