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."

Comments

Errm...

[Clue4All]

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.

good.. but you can use xmms to

[FuraxCerebro]

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
----- Sorry for the bad english.. try to learn

audiocd:/

[spencerogden]

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.