[wplug] Ripping audio CDs in Linux?

[Diana A. Clarion]

Hey Zach,

For ripping, I use a combination of cdparanoia and sox.

cdparanoia -B  will give you every track on the CD (and the initial
pre-emphasis track, if there is one).  These tracks are suitable for TAO
burning as-is.  What occasionally happens to me is that, when ripping a
DAO CD, a single stream will be split into two files.  An example is
Beethoven's Symphony Nr. 5, where the second movement proceeds to the
third without a break.  The CD producers usually put a track boundary at
the start of the third movement, so you get two files.  I'll use sox in
stitching the two files together to get a single file again.  Of course,
sox is great for converting the wavs to MP3, too.

DAC

On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 22:38 -0500, Zach wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a rather large CD collection (over 500) and was thinking of
> ripping them and saving the audio files on an external USB hard disk.