Ripping a cd easily to mp3/ogg/flac using the command line
Friday, June 26th, 2009There's a really nice tool if you need to rip CD's quickly and quietly without all the gui stuff called abcde (A better CD encoder)
This command will give you an idea of how easy it is to rip to mp3 320kb/s with titles autmatically downloaded etc...
abcde -o mp3:"-b 320" -d /dev/cdrom1
Her are a few supported features :
* CDDA using cdparanoia or cdda2wav
* Ogg Vorbis using oggenc or vorbize
* MP3 using lame, gogo, bladeenc, mp3enc, xingmp3enc, or l3enc
* CDDB using cd-discid, wget, and FreeDB
* Ogg commenting using vorbiscomment
* Tagging using id3 and id3v2
* m3u playlists
* Distributed remote MP3 encoding using distmp3
* Simultaneous reading and encoding
* SMP systems
* Resuming interrupted sessions
* Noninteractivity
* Error logging of background processes
* Various Artists discs of all types
* Custom filename output and munging
* Passing arbitrary options to subprocesses
* Ejecting CD's after reading
* Encoder nicing
* Grabbing arbitrary ranges of tracks