Ripping a CD to a single file (was Re: Ripping OGG files (was ...))

[Matthew J. Brodeur]

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On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Jason Stephenson wrote:

> Yeah, but I don't know of any ripping software that does that. [Rips a
> CD to a single file] If anybody finds such a beast, please be kind
> enough to tell the rest of us.

   I posted this suggestion a few days ago, but I guess it got lost in the 
crowd.  I just tested my theory on a CD I borrowed from the boss.  
This command line:
$ cdparanoia -X -Z -d /dev/cdrom 1- Beethoven\ -\ Symphony\ No.\ 9\ \"Choral\".wav

   ...generated this display:
Ripping from sector       0 (track  1 [0:00.00])
          to sector  315606 (track  4 [25:38.66])

outputting to Beethoven - Symphony No. 9 "Choral".wav

   ...and this output:
$ ls -l
- -rw-rw-r-- 1 mbrodeur mbrodeur 742307708 Dec 11 11:33 Beethoven - Symphony No. 9 "Choral".wav

   Which is indeed a single .wav containing all four tracks from the 
source CD.  The secret is the "1-" passed to cdparanoia, which tells it to 
rip from the beginning of track 1 to the end of the last track.  In real 
life I wouldn't have used the "-Z" option, as this disables almost every 
error check/correction, but this was just a test.
   Now a more useful command line would be something like:

$ cdparanoia -X -d /dev/cdrom 1- - | oggenc -o \
"Beethoven - Symphony No. 9 \"Choral\".ogg" -q 4 -c \
"comment=Single Rip/Pipeline Test" -

   ...which _SHOULD_ produce an single .ogg of the entire CD without an 
intermediate .wav file.  I'm testing it as I type, and on my machine it's 
working. YMMV.  Again, in the real world I use a higher quality and add 
tags through the oggenc command line.


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Matthew J. Brodeur                                             RHCE, GSEC
MBrodeur at NextTime.com                             http://www.NextTime.com

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