CD Ripping Software

I use GnomeBaker for DVDs, and Brasero for CDs. Brasero seems to have some trouble with DVDs for me, and GnomeBaker can probably do CDs just fine, but I had already been used to using Brasero for them, so I still use that. Hope that helps.

Please read the question carefully before shooting your answer -- I was asking for rippers and all your answers are burnners.

thanks anyway.

There is no single best application for any situation. There are simply options, each with abilities etc.

Could try asunder

http://www.ubuntugeek.com/asunder-graphical-audio-cd-ripper-and-encoder.html

As I said before,

Asunder, freeze for me half the way, always (Maybe maverick's Asunder is several versions behind).

Bottom line, Asunder is out for me.

Tong Sun

I just downloaded Audio CD Extractor ( Sound Juicer). I have never used it. Put in purchased CD, and ripped to .OGG file, one song. You said, that Ripper X does not do .OGG. You can use Sound Converter (Ubuntu Software Center) to convert to .OGG. It's odd that Asunder does not work on my Ubuntu 10.10. I tried it to see if it would freeze. This is not much help, but try Ripper X, and the Sound Converter. Maybe someone can help with why Audio CD Extractor (Sound Juicer) does not work.

> Ripper X does not do .OGG. You can use Sound Converter (Ubuntu Software Center) to convert to .OGG

The problem is that, doing this way, I lost all the tagging info. Ogg tagging is so powerful that, even if you don't remember from which CD those OGGs came from, you can still do a freedb query based on OGGs alone. I don't want to miss *that*.

> It's odd that Asunder does not work on my Ubuntu 10.10.

Thanks God, another person concurs that Asunder is not working under Ubuntu 10.10.

BTW, I really appreciate that you did not change the open status of the problem when answering the question, michael. When I ask a question, I'm serious about it, and feel bad to see people trying to "sweep it under the carpet".

Thanks

Could try ripperx. Just load up software centre and seacrch for 'ripper' then read the results.

Apparently CDEx runs in Wine, not used it under Linux personally but I've seen folks say it works

> Could try ripperx.

See #6

> CDEx runs in Wine

I'd rather have a pure Linux based solution.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD_ripper

Lists a few, could try K3b if you have space to hold the Qt libs

actionparsnip,

Thanks. been there, and I use gtk apps only.

Could you just leave the question open for other people who have first hand experience PLEASE?

Have been looking into RipperX. If you click mp3, in preferences, it will bring up .OGG. That said, I have converted one file, (.wav) to .OGG. Since then, nothing works. no .mp3 or .OGG. At SourceForge forum a comment was made using 2.7.3 package for Natty, not 2.7.2 that is in 10.10. I hope this may be of some help.

Interesting. Thanks michael.

Is your .OGG file ripped by RipperX properly tagged?

thanks

Tong, I have not used tags, not sure what they are. If they are Title: Artist: Album: Duration: Year: Comment: Codec: Channels: Sample rate: Bitrate: it does. The Year: unknown, Comments: is blank. I have done four files to .OGG. BUT, RipperX works on 10.04, on 10.10 it gives error #6, and SourceForges support is hard to get information from. It bugs me to have programs working in one and not the other. I don't do much ripping anymore, but the fact these programs (RipperX, Asunder, Sound Juicer) don't work, is just wrong. I am going to remove and reinstall in 10.10, to see if that helps. good luck

http://postimage.org/image/29kit7qzo/7b88b455/

http://postimage.org/image/rz91d4n8/f8af2969/

Theses addresses will bring up Sound Juicer and Asunder screenshots ripped to .OGG in Ubuntu 10.10. Still no luck with RipperX. I removed and reinstalled. Also changed preferences until they worked. I hope this helps you.

Thank you michael for your comments.

FYI, the 1st url links to an image playing (not ripping) the music, while the 2nd points to nothing.

Ok, when everything else failed, and when was ready to embrace hard working, I actually found an easy solution -- I guess many people would like me, have seen the following but was scared away by the MASSIVE configuration necessary, before ever knowing if it works or not:

abcde: Command Line Music CD Ripping for Linux
http://www.andrews-corner.org/abcde.html

However, it turns out that ogg ripping and encoding works jut out of box without any configuration!!!

Again, quoting from the page as the conclusion,

"I have tried a variety of programs to rip my personal collection of music from CD to computer. I found significant shortcomings with many of the GUI programs and throughout I was also a little nonplussed at the complexities of whole process. Fortunately I came across the script known as abcde which eliminates the needless froth of the GUI as well as seamlessly takes care of much of the complexity of the process. "

Happy ripping!

Glad to hear my abcde page has been useful :)

Thanks Andrew for your wonderful tool. Yeah,
anyone who went through the whole thread carefully will sure to agree that abcde is truly the winner that no others can come close.

Keep up the good work.

Thanks