I would like to ask you just what CD Ripper program are you using? Do you use it often and what kind of files do you create with it. I must confess until recently, I have not found a Linux CD ripper that did not give me some sort of issue in either the file format selected or how the application named and stored the songs. That is, until this last week when I finally tried out the CD ripper…
Asunder CD Ripper
I have ripped about a dozen audio CD’s since I have loaded it and it has worked like a super champ for me in every way. I normally create fixed bit rate lossy MP3 files at 192 Kbps. I know that other formats would be better, but they just work on every player and still sound good to me in every way.
So, if finding a quality CD ripper has kept you from using openSUSE, then you have got to try out Asunder. Trust me on this one, as I listen to my latest rip, Morcheeba - Blood Like Lemonade. Life is great isn’t it?
Now this would not be a survey if you did not tell me what CD ripper you REALLY use and why it might be better than Asunder.
grip. Has worked fine for me for ages so no incentive to look for something else. I usually encode VBR and get the quality without the bulk. Haven’t yet found a player that can’t handle VBR.
Thank so much ken_yap for your response. I shall give grip a try as I see I in fact have it installed. Since I am going to be off from work for the next three weeks, I will have a chance to try it, perhaps in a week or so hence. It is too bad I just could not wait to rip all of those CD’s I had. I have been waiting to find just the right application in Linux to use and it was kind of like trying to eat just one potato chip after I found it. I just could not wait. But I will try out your suggestion I guaranty.
So I have tried to use k3b, but it never seemed to provide flawless MP3 files. I also had issues with the exact file location and naming. Perhaps this is set in KDE personnel Settings? One could say that I gave up too soon with k3b since everything else it does works like a champ. I have never had k3b fail to burn a bootable iso image or any other task really.
I only tried jripper once, but again I did not get it to work for me properly. Now like many things, I just did not immediately determine how it needed to be configured to provide the setup that I desired.
Now as for Dolphin, I can say that I have never even considered using it and I am not sure what we are saying to do in that program to rip audio CD’s. I would like to add that when using Asunder, that it rips the CD very fast with times at or faster than I have observed using Windows applications.
Again, I thank everyone for taking the time to reply to my CD Ripper thread.
Dolphin/Konqueror (and probably other file managers) use the AudioCD KIO-Slave in order to display an AudioCD’s content in a directory-esque fashion, which sports ‘pseudo-directories’ for Wave, Flac and .ogg files, and it looks as if those were real directories on the CD. They are not, of course, but that does not stop you from being able to simply copy those directories, or their content, to a different location. The ‘files’ themselves are tagged automatically according to CDDB, and the ‘ripping’ to .flac is about as fast as your drive and CD permits, in my experience at least.
Settings can be found in Personal Settings under CDDB Retrieval and Audio-CDs. YMMV depending on which KDE4 version you have.
I am not sure though it can be used with MP3s though, but that does not bother me one bit. I am more happy with Flac anyway.
Actually it can be used for MP3 as well. You just need to have the right LAME packages from Packman installed, and for some odd reason in KDE 4.4.4 use Konqueror instead of Dolphin. In Personal Settings > AudioCD you can configure the MP3 encoder.