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[Resolved] Looking for recommendations -- CD Ripper (lemm.ee)
submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Hey hey, I have been using Sound Juicer on my Ubuntu 24 / KDE 5 PC and it works, but it doesn't handle the tags for my MP3 files very nicely. I've also used abcde, at the terminal, and that can be better but it takes a lot finessing at the CLI to get the result I want.

Is there a better CD ripper application that will run on Ubuntu and can make setting the MP3 tags dead simple?

Thanks for any ideas!

Edit: Fixed a typo

ETA: Asunder looks good, does what I need and works well on my PC. Thanks for everyone's ideas and help!

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

I use whipper. It's a command-line application but it's easy to use and works great every single time. At first you should let it analyze your drive which is the only step more involved. Here's a mini tutorial for that I wrote for myself but you can also read it on the project page where it's probably more up to date:

  1. Analyze the drive's caching behavior: $ sudo whipper drive analyze

  2. Find the drive's offset. Consult the [[AccurateRip's CD Drive Offset database|http://www.accuraterip.com/driveoffsets.htm]] for your drive. Drive information can be retrieved with $ whipper drive list. $ sudo whipper offset find -o insert-numeric-value-here. If you omit the -o argument, whipper will try a long, popularity-sorted list of drive offsets. If you can't confirm your drive offset value but wish to set a default regardless, set read_offset = insert-numeric-value-here in whipper.conf. Offsets confirmed with $ whipper offset find are automatically written to the configuration file. If specifying the offset manually, please note that: if positive it must be written as a number without sign (ex: +102 -> 102), if negative it must include the sign.

  3. After that you just rip any disc by running: $ whipper cd rip

And just as an example, here's my ~/.config/whipper/whipper.conf:

[main]
path_filter_fat = True
path_filter_special = False

[drive:<drive ID>]
vendor = <vendor>
model = <model>
release = <release>
read_offset = <my offset>

[whipper.cd.rip]
unknown = True
output_directory = ~/music/_ripped
track_template = new/%%A/%%y - %%d/%%t - %%n
disc_template = new/%%A/%%y - %%d/%%A - %%d
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Thanks much! Super helpful. I am trying out whipper now and it looks good so far.

Just a note, you had an extra 'L' at the end of your URL:

http://www.accuraterip.com/driveoffsets.htm

:)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Corrected, thx.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

@[email protected] Sorry to spam you - but I ran whipper and it created FLACs. I want MP3s, even though I know that makes me evil. :)

I've reviewed their github page and they don't say it can directly output MP3s. Their example config file, for instance, doesn't show a way to specify output format at all. Am I supposed to convert the files on my own then, or ...? (That defeats my one step process but I'll try if needed)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

I prefer FLAC. Don't know if there's an option in whipper for that. But the Arch Wiki has an article for converting: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Convert_FLAC_to_MP3

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

@kyub @perishthethought Installed and will give it a try next time I acquire something I want to rip (which is basically any CD I acquire as the computer is more convenient than a CD player and CD-rot has eaten some of my 80's vintage CDs).