debian: ogg files from audio CDs

mrflash818 (

mrflash818) wrote in

debian,
@ 2008-01-06 15:36:00

Current location:	home
Current music:	none

ogg files from audio CDs
If you like to listen to music, but do not want to carry around your compact discs, then here is a simple way to turn your songs into ogg vorbis files from Etch.

1. sudo aptitude install cdparanoia
2. sudo aptitude install vorbis-tools

Check your groups to make sure you are a member of groups cdrom and audio
Open a shell (Applications -> Debian -> XShells -> XTerm)
robert@pip:/tmp$ groups
robert dialout cdrom floppy audio video plugdev netdev powerdev

Put a music CD into your CDROM drive.
Then make sure cdparanoia can see the drive and disk.

robert@pip:/tmp$ cdparanoia -vsQ
It should spew some info about your drive and tracks on the CD.

To rip an individual track, Say track '5', then
robert@pip:/tmp$ cdparanoia -B 5

To convert the created *.wav file to ogg, then
robert@pip:/tmp$ oggenc *.wav

Now you have a ogg vorbis encoded music file, and can be played by totem, xmms, etc. (whee!)

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I then put these files into my USB jump drive to be able to play on any PC (even in M$ media player... if you download the ogg vorbis codec into widows media player. See the 'ogg vorbis' entry in en.wikipedia.org)

For my Etch install, both totem and xmms can play the ogg files, as well as my work M$ PC (with the codec). For Christmas my wife even got me an 'Insignia' mp3 player, and it also can play ogg vorbis files.

Happy ripping and listening!

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	diffrentcolours 2008-01-07 12:21 am UTC (link)
	A much easier option is just to use `abcde` - it'll rip, encode and tag your files for you all in one operation. (Reply to this)

	mdlbear 2008-01-07 01:16 am UTC (link)
	Alternatively install any of the dozens of rippers out there (e.g. grip or jack). (Reply to this)

	baloo_ursidae 2008-01-07 02:52 am UTC (link)
	Or you can open your audio CD in KDE and drag the virtual OGG files off it to rip, encode and tag all in one drag-and-drop. (Reply to this)

	demonbane 2008-01-07 10:38 am UTC (link)
	With hard drive space being as available as it is today, FLAC is a much better option as it's lossless. Any of the aforementioned tools will rip to FLAC just as easily as OGG. Very useful hint for people who didn't know how to do this already though. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	mattcaron 2008-01-07 04:14 pm UTC (link)
	With hard drive space being as available as it is today, FLAC is a much better option as it's lossless. Not if your end target is a 4GB solid-state portable player. :-) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

demonbane
2008-01-07 07:11 pm UTC (link)

Depends on what you're looking to do with the music. I personally hate to have to shuffle my CD's around, so as soon as I get a new CD the first thing I do is rip it to FLAC on my PC. Then, if I need to transfer it to a portable device later, I can do on-the-fly transcoding from FLAC to OGG. True, it takes more time than just copying over OGG files, but it's a heck of a lot faster than re-ripping the CD each time.

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	mattcaron 2008-01-07 07:14 pm UTC (link)
	Hmm.. I hadn't thought of an on the fly transcode. Brilliant! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	diffrentcolours 2008-01-14 12:12 am UTC (link)
	Pretty much all of my music-playing systems aren't good enough for Vorbis vs FLAC to make a difference. Except the one that takes CDs rather than digital audio ;) BTW, it's "Ogg Vorbis" and "Ogg FLAC". Both the Vorbis and FLAC audio codecs use the Ogg container format. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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