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Rip Audio CD to Flac & Burn From Flac + toc

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lifeeyum
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Re: Rip Audio CD to Flac & Burn From Flac + toc

#21 Post by lifeeyum »

Thanks for the tutorial. It was easy to follow, informative and delivered as promised.

I am facing one small problem though. I'm running with loop and eject and all is well except that the CD drive does not give me enough time to grab the disk out and change it before it closes the tray. Sometimes it's less than one second, sometimes it's a few seconds, once it was about 15 seconds.

Ideally it would wait for me to change the disk and close the tray myself.

Any ideas on what's going wrong here?

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Re: Rip Audio CD to Flac & Burn From Flac + toc

#22 Post by julian67 »

This isn't an issue with ripit, it can happen in different circumstances. Have a look at the tool eject (it's in the repos) and if you still have trouble it's better to open a new thread.
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Re: Rip Audio CD to Flac & Burn From Flac + toc

#23 Post by nadir »

julian67 wrote: ....
Ripit exists in Debian main as version 3.6.0-1 but it has a bug with CDDB lookups. This is fixed in the upstream version which can be obtained from http://www.suwald.com/ripit/ripit.html I use ripit-3.7.0-beta20090308 and recommend you do the same until a fixed version appears in Debian repos.
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The link is or seems to be dead.
It took me a while to find it online, though i used google.
You may want to change it. I think it is:
http://www.suwald.com/ripit/news.php

if wrong: ignore.

darn, that should be a pm. now i will leave it here.
Well, once it is here i can also ask my question. :-)
I had problems to install the version from the maintainers site with dh_make (error was "dh_usrlocal debian/ripit/usr/local/bin/ripit no such directory") That is version 3.9.0.
The version for squeeze/sid is 3.8.0.
Is it ok to take the debian version, or is there a main advantage in using the 3.9.0 version?
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#24 Post by julian67 »

I changed the link, thanks.

Building ripit 3.9.0 from upstream tarball:

I recall having an issue with dh_make and the upstream makefile. Solution:

Unpack tarball, cd into ripit directory, edit makefile and change

prefix = $(DESTDIR)/usr/local

to

prefix = $(DESTDIR)/usr

`dh_make -s -n`
`rm debian/*.ex`
`fakeroot debian/rules binary`

Well maybe you don't want a locally built package in /usr/bin when really it should be in /usr/local/bin but I'm lazy, it was the first thing I changed and it works.

Advantages of 3.9 over earlier versions:

it depends a lot on what you are interested in. Some people might not find any great reason to change from the version in Debian testing/unstable. I moved to 3.9.0 because it has the option to embed cover art in the tracks as part of the rip and encode process, something I like a lot. I always scan the cover and booklet when I rip my CDs (or anyone else's ha ha) and now I just need to make a small jpg of the cover and name it appropriately and it gets embedded in the tags when I run ripit. Very neat, it displays automatically on my portable players. I have ripit run replaygain as well. I'm not aware of any other ripper which can securely rip, encode to multiple codecs, name, tag, replaygain, add cover art, all automatic and in the one run and with a single command (or just by pushing the CD into the slot).

Other good new options: the ability to use custom mp3 id3 tags so you're not restricted to the limited official range. It annoyed me for a long time that there is a huge variety of different tags for electronic/dance/pop music but apparently every piece of European music made before the 20th century is "Classical". Bloody ignoramuses.

There are some good new options for dealing properly with various artists tagging as well. I don't think I tried the other new options yet.
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Re: Rip Audio CD to Flac & Burn From Flac + toc

#25 Post by nadir »

Yes, changing the prefix did work (took a bit less then 2 minutes, alltogether and including to install the deb). Thanks for the help, all that is a bit too heavy for me.
(thanks for the explanations about changes in ripit-versions too. Doesn't sound like my kind of interest, but perhaps in the future).

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