> failure, I'll have to reencode them. Hmm...maybe I'll ogg the > buggers... Everything I've been doing lately is Ogg, however, the oggenc encoder is pretty slow. A 4 minute song takes about 4 mins to encode on a PII 450. Of course, the last time I used LAME, it was about equally as slow. Of course, if you're archiving your music, who cares if it takes a long time to encode. Might as well do it high quality the first time, since you'll probably be listening to it several years down the road. Until you play you encoded music through a nice high quality sound system, you don't appreciate how much better a good MP3 encoder or Ogg makes it sound. > -----Original Message----- > From: Andy Zbikowski [mailto:andyzb at ltiflex.com] > Sent: Friday, December 29, 2000 1:37 PM > To: tclug-list at lists.real-time.com > Subject: Re: [TCLUG] CD ripper/ MP3 encoder > > > For encoding mp3 go with lame. It the best of the encoders > under Linux (of > the encoders I know about anyway.) The documentation is a bit > sparse, but > there isn't that much to document. > > For ripping use cdparinoia. Unlike similar programs such as > cdda2wav, cdparanoia goes to great lengths to try to extract > the audio > information without any artifacts such as jitter. > > As a front end I use grip. It's not too hard to configure and > once you get > all the command line options in there that you want you don't have to > remember them. Also nice is that it can hook into free cddb > and get the song > titles. Slick. > > There was a console front end I used to use, I think it was > called cdgrab. > Whatever it was it was pretty decent. Since I recently lost > my mp3s to drive > failure, I'll have to reencode them. Hmm...maybe I'll ogg the > buggers... > > -- > Andy Zbikowski, Sys Admin | (WEB) http://www.ltiflex.com > LTI Flexible Products, Inc. | (PH) 763-428-9119 (EX) 132 > 21801 Industrial Blvd | (FX) 763-428-9126 > Rogers, MN 55374 | (PCS) 612-306-6055 >