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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.
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Yeah, because GRIP was such a pain in the butt to use.
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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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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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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.
Try CDex. cd-paranoia back-end, bunch of encoders, writes to any sort of file structure and file name you'd like (e.g. my preference, Genre/Artist/Album/Songnumber- SongName -- Album - Artist), does local and remote cddbs.
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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)
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.