ripping software

[Tom Fogal]

*quietly recommends ogg's and 'abcde' - a better CD encoder.*

it's on freshmeat. IMHO, oggs > mp3s because theyre more open, and abcde is
great because its easy to configure to your naming scheme, and all cmd-line
based =)

anyway, just my $0.02...

-tom

> 
> Recently I wanted to rip some of my CDs to mp3 format.  Being a
> "command-line" sort of person, and also being impatient, I wondered
> "hasn't anybody created a command-line utility to rip CD'S to mp3's
> that is smart enough to know about CDDB?".
> 
> Perhaps this is a silly question, perhaps everybody and their brother
> has a great method for doing this and I am ignorant.  Anyways, I
> quickly found a program that does exactly what I want.  The name of
> the program is...unfortunate, but I can't complain about the results:
> 
>         http://ftso.org/choad/index1.html
> 
> 
> The fact this this program is written in Perl is a nice bonus,
> methinks.  (-:
> 
> 
> 
> Anyways, I just wanted to let other people know about this useful
> program. 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> --kevin
> -- 
> Kevin D. Clark / Cetacean Networks / Portsmouth, N.H. (USA)
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