Finally, somebody wrote an alternative to Exact Audio Copy, which now
runs under linux (EAC worked fine with WINE
under linux altough..). For those who don't know, EAC is THE well-known
ripper, which supports accuraterip, and
now finally there's a linux alternative!
..for those who don't buy music and only download, stop reading now,
especially don't click any link, it might waste your bandwidth and your
torrents take longer to complete.... pfff... :-D
Anyway, so quickly what's the secure ripping all about (and what does
the job now for linux..?)...?
secure ripping?
People might say, an audio-cd contains also just 0 and 1, so where the
heck is the problem..!? To get a brief overview over it, here are a two
things to consider; first of all, nearly every drive has an read-offset,
which depends on the cd-rom drive model (have a look
here), which needs to be
taken into consideration to get an ACCURATE rip. Second, lots of drives
cache the audio data, which might be a nice idea for the day-to-day use,
but sucks for ripping. Let me explain, you've got a scratch on a disk,
when you're reading this area, the drive will 'complain' that there
might be an issue with that part, so the software tries to re-read it,
since the cd-rom is clever, you'll get the sector out of the cache, so
all the re-reading is pointless. To still get a good copy, the SW is
advised to empty the cache before every re-read, so you can afterwards
guess the original content.
Anyway, if you really want to know about all the hurdles in detail,
read this page.
the tool
MORITURI
Yes, that's the tool that does all the magic, even under linux! Well,
the project page tells everything you need to know, maybe I'll just add
another example:
[code lang="bash"]
rip cd -d /dev/sr0 rip -o 733 --profile=flac -O /home/user/data/ripping
--track-template="%t--%n--%a--%d"
[/code]
-o defines the offset, --profile the format, -O the output-folder, and
the --track-template is used for the filename.
The most essential functions are the following;
musicbrainz support for tagging,
accuraterip support to verify the
checksums agains an online DB, and the 'templates' for the filenames.
A bit a downside of the program is that it stops ripping if there's a
checksum-mismatch on one of the tracks, and I also couldn't find an
option to use the cd-release-year within the filename. I'll open a
bugreport, as time permits, with a reward ;-)
Thanks for reading!
Cheers,
Raphi