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Anyone know if any of these will rip CDs to MP3 to a decent quality? I am desperately trying to get something working properly on the latest Kubuntu and am having no success. Please help!
If you can get your hands on grip and lame packages, there's your answer. grip by itself doesn't do mp3, but has a plugin ready to output to lame. The problem would be getting lames, as there's issues with Thompson's patent on mp3.
They technically don't want ENcoders in th hands of folks, but they say it's really ok and they don't care... so long as you're not cranking out thousand of copies and selling them.
grip + lame = mp3
They technically don't want ENcoders in th hands of folks, but they say it's really ok and they don't care... so long as you're not cranking out thousand of copies and selling them.
grip + lame = mp3
You really need to learn about ubuntu's
forums. Anyway grip + lame works great but I
am assuming that you are looking for a qt
program.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?
t=164134
forums. Anyway grip + lame works great but I
am assuming that you are looking for a qt
program.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?
t=164134
Yes that's right I would like a proper KDE app to do the job. I can't be bothered to write a script every time I want to rip a CD, and in this day and age I really shouldn't have to. I have tried the Ubuntu forums and none of the solutions for 8.10 work - the annoying thing is that in Kubuntu 8.10 nothing seems to work properly for this: K3b is broken, Sound Juicer is broken, Amarok still doesn't have the functionality. The only thing I got to work was RipOff but it only seemed to do it in mono! I am probably going to have to run something in an XP VM which I really don't want to do but I may have no choice.
Try Mandriva 2008.1, everything works. It's pretty amazing.
You can try the One live CD and decide if you want to install. Then there's on line media where you can add grip, and even lame. (a third party source called "plf."
K3B works flawlessly in this OS btw. But their new release, 2009, is a mess. They switched to KDE 4 and made major changes to how the base system works.
2008.1 KDE 3 is where it's at.
You can try the One live CD and decide if you want to install. Then there's on line media where you can add grip, and even lame. (a third party source called "plf."
K3B works flawlessly in this OS btw. But their new release, 2009, is a mess. They switched to KDE 4 and made major changes to how the base system works.
2008.1 KDE 3 is where it's at.
...and the implementation on Kubuntu 8.10 is very beautiful. Pretty much everything else seems to work so far. I'm not going back to KD3 just so I can rip CDs, and I agree that Mandriva 2009 looks awful so I'm not going there. I will keep plugging away and if I find a solution that works properly I'll post it in the Ubuntu forums.
suse is using a well polished KDE 4.0.3, that works great. Mandriva is trying to get the jump, and after all us die hard users aka testers get the bugs out, they will be money ahead.
In fact after installing now you'll immediately be handed a ton of updates that fix most all the major problems. By the time the spring release (April) they should be back in the driver's seat.
But for now suse is a fully operable system, and they do have grip, though not sure about lame, you might have to compile.
In fact after installing now you'll immediately be handed a ton of updates that fix most all the major problems. By the time the spring release (April) they should be back in the driver's seat.
But for now suse is a fully operable system, and they do have grip, though not sure about lame, you might have to compile.
I'm not sure I understand - how is running XP in a VM easier than using the suggested solution of using Grip + LAME?
FWIW Aqualung (that I mentioned before) also supports ripping CDs and encoding to a variety of formats.
FWIW Aqualung (that I mentioned before) also supports ripping CDs and encoding to a variety of formats.
as I said, the only thing to work so far is RipOff and that only did mono. I'm starting to think that lame itself is broken although I don't know why.
Well you could just rip the tracks to wav format, to see if cdparanoia is working (I presume it's being used), then encode afterwards to test LAME. Of course Ubuntu doesn't support the mp3 format by default, so there might be a library dependency issue. This isn't really the proper forum for support though, I might suggest asking for help in the forums.
i've had a lot of luck with that tool. if not that then grip.
Since you're including music players without syncing ability, then I might suggest Aqualung:
http://aqualung.factorial.hu/
It does even have some iRiver support, which is more than can be said for Audacious.
http://aqualung.factorial.hu/
It does even have some iRiver support, which is more than can be said for Audacious.
I guess I am just a Gnome geek rather than a KDE geek. But like most other KDE applications Amarok suffers from TOO MANY options. Freedom of choice is good but like KDE its self Amarok drowns me in choices. Give me the simpler, yet still feature full, options of Rhythmbox and Banshee any day!
I guess you haven't tried KDE4. While I would
fully agree that the older KDE suffered from
feature creep the new one is far from it.
Quite a few things have changed in the design
( maybe because they mostly started from
scratch ) and the results are a lot better.
Actually I find myself liking Dolphin a lot
better than Nautilus. But as far as Amarok
goes ... it is about the worst design ever.
Wasn't the point to make a music player and
if so why did they add all the other 1000
somewhat useless features? Sure it's nice to
have plugins that extend the functionality if
you need it but this is hardly the case here.
The interface feels more than cluttered and
the sad part is that even with themes you
can'd really do much about remedying that.
Anyway I still haven't seen anything that
works quite as well as iTunes does especially
on OS X ( with all the addons available ).
The closes is foobar2000 only it's a windows
app so you need wine to run it on *nix. The
latest versions even include layouts very
similar to itunes only the player actually
has more features and allows custom keyboard
mapping among other things.
fully agree that the older KDE suffered from
feature creep the new one is far from it.
Quite a few things have changed in the design
( maybe because they mostly started from
scratch ) and the results are a lot better.
Actually I find myself liking Dolphin a lot
better than Nautilus. But as far as Amarok
goes ... it is about the worst design ever.
Wasn't the point to make a music player and
if so why did they add all the other 1000
somewhat useless features? Sure it's nice to
have plugins that extend the functionality if
you need it but this is hardly the case here.
The interface feels more than cluttered and
the sad part is that even with themes you
can'd really do much about remedying that.
Anyway I still haven't seen anything that
works quite as well as iTunes does especially
on OS X ( with all the addons available ).
The closes is foobar2000 only it's a windows
app so you need wine to run it on *nix. The
latest versions even include layouts very
similar to itunes only the player actually
has more features and allows custom keyboard
mapping among other things.
One key feature of my audio player is that of Replay Gain. This is available with Media Monkey on my Windows XP (and Vista). The feature works out the average volume level of a track and then store it in the file, then use that to ensure that if you have selected random play, all tunes sort of match up in loudness - not one being 20db louder than the previous (a very serious problem if one is actually playing very loudly in the first instance!)
I bought my daughter an iPod Nano, which is the ONLY THING that my linux desktop could not support for sending files TO the iPod Nano proprietary file system. I am not concerned with how many bells and whistles it has, I would like to have the basic capability of sending playable music files to the iPod Nano without corrupting it and making it unusable. Do you know how this can be done? I have a Creative Zen for myself, which is as easy as using a USB memory stick. But, I bought the iPod, thinking it would be just as "compatible".
Why not just download mplayer for Linux? You can get it as a tar file or as an rpm file. It plays pretty much anything.
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