Ripping OGG files (was Re: can't mount cdrom)

[Jason Stephenson]

There's a couple of Jethro Tull albums like that, too. In fact if you 
get the CD versions of Thick As A Brick and A Passion Play, they're just 
two tracks long. One track for each side of the original album. I think 
if they had CDs in the early '70s when these albums were originally 
recorded, there'd be just one track on each.

I generally rip my CDs with cd2mp3, and have it store the files in a 
hierarchy of subdirectories under /home/mp3s. First, a subdir for the 
artist, followed by one subdir for each CD. I have one subdir just for 
soundtracks and compilations.

I also have a couple of subdirs named for friends. These subdirs contain 
MP3s and Oggs that those particular friends have sent, and contain a 
fairly random selection of stuff.

Randy Edwards wrote:
>>   I see one.  Occasionally, you run across albums such as Pink Floyd's
>> The Wall where, I believe, there are separate tracks, but the music
>> doesn't necessarily stop between tracks.
> 
> 
>    Or the flow of the album just demands that the next track on the 
> album be played.  Single tracks are fine for the vast majority of songs 
> and I have xmms randomize them; this typically works well and gives a 
> nice variety.  But there's quite a few albums where the tracks should be 
> played as they were on the album.  (Who'd of thunk it that some bands 
> would nail that "album thing" and not just see it as a way of pricing 
> music more expensively.)
> 
>    Since you mentioned Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon is one such 
> album -- it just isn't "normal" to go from a track on that album and to 
> have xmms randomize in The Offspring or something else as the next 
> track.  There's a couple of spots on Dark Side of the Moon where one 
> could cut to something different, but the work is best played in its 
> entirety.
> 
>    Thanks to all that responded; I'll play around with cat and see how 
> that works.
>