Questions tagged [cd-ripping]
Questions that relate to the process of copying audio or video content to a hard disk, typically from removable media. The word is used to refer to all forms of media. Despite the name, neither the media nor the data is damaged after extraction.
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What are some CD Ripping Programs you can use on Ubuntu?
What are some CD ripping programs for Ubuntu? Can you list the Pros? What are the Cons? For each program there should be a screenshot, sources to install, and instructions to install and use.
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How to rip an audio CD into flac
Hello I tried to rip some Audio CDs into the lossless flac format.
Flac has different compression rates and multiple arguments which can be passed. Normally I like to use flac with the argument -V8 ...
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Ripped mp3 files show wrong track lengths
I have seen this problem both when using Banshee and Sound Juicer. I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 on a Thinkpad 14". I'm not sure about the make of my internal CD drive, but would be glad to provide you with ...
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How to transfer a DVD to my hard drive
I have several DVD I want to transfer to my Hard drive. I want to have the DVD menu and such. Not only the movie. I was sure that ripping the movie will do the trick but it didn't work. What can I do ...
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abcde: What is an ~/.abcde.conf file to rip to multiple formats?
The 'canonical' abcde conf file section of the website at andrews-corner has been removed; what is a conf file that I can use now to rip my audio cds with abcde to multiple different formats at the ...
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How to submit CDDB entry?
I usually use Asunder to rip CDs for personal usage, and most of the times the CDDB database retrieves the correct tags for my disc. Sometimes however I stumble upon CDs that are either missing from ...
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Banshee is unable to determine audio cd metadata
I tried to add a audio cd to my music pool.
When I enable the "Audio CD Support" extension the following output where posted via debug-mode. Now when I take a look to the cd, I realised that banshee ...
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A Music Player with CD ripping and CDDB lookup
I'm currently looking for a native Music Player and Library Organizer, which supports Audio CD ripping with CDDB lookup.
I know there's Banshee, but it's a Mono-executed .NET program, which doesn't ...
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How can I rip my CDs into Apple Lossless (ALAC)?
I like to keep all my music in a lossless format, so I will never need to rip my CD collection again.
I chose Apple Lossless because it's a format that can be played directly
on my iPod, without re-...
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Need a CD Ripping program that allows manually editing track titles
I have reviewed other answers such as What are good CD Ripping Programs?. I didn't find my solution yet.
The solution I seek: I want to enter or edit track titles and album info manually in the GUI ...
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Ripping MP3s in Rhythmbox Ubuntu 12.10 (64 bit)?
I installed a couple of days ago Ubuntu 12.10 (64 bit).
I today tried ripping a CD in the MP3 format.
However, whenever I try to rip, it says it is missing an extra multimedia plugin "Gstreamer ...
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Can't encode in mp3 asunder
When I try to rip CD's from Asunder and automatically encode in mp3, I get the following error:
'lame' was not found in your path. Asunder requires it to create MP3 files. All MP3 functionality is ...
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Audio CD ripper/encoder GUI as good as grip? (eg. front end for cdparanoia and lame)
Back in the day, there was grip. It had a complicated, somewhat ugly UI, but everything was configurable and, generally, it worked. Then it was abandoned.
Now, there are all sorts of tools, but ...
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How can I rip a copyprotected audio cd
Banshee hangs when I try to load an audio cd with "bmg-copycontrol". The same with sound juicer. How can I extract it?
According to wikipedia this copy control was used during 2001-2006. The web page,...
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How can I speed up CD ripping with rhythmbox?
I am trying to rip my music collection from CD into mp3. For this task I am using Rhythmbox but the process is taking a lot of time since Rhythmbox is ripping the CDs very slowly.
Are there ways to ...
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Is there a way in Ubuntu to rip a CD to FLAC and add ReplayGain tags automatically?
I'm planning to rip my full CD collection (probably more than 100 CDs*) to FLAC with CDparanoia and ReplayGain tags added.
Over the years, I used different codecs and quality options for them, ...
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How do you import music on mp3 at 320 kbps in banshee, or any other media player?
When you import music to banshee the default bitrate seems to be 128kbps (I don't like this, disk space is cheap so give me the highest quality please), how do you change this to be something like 320 ...
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How to run ABCDE when I insert music CDs
I used to have ABCDE run automatically and rip a CD when I put it in my computer.
I did this by selecting ABCDE for when a CD is inserted through the Media tab in Nautilus but this option has been ...
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Sound Juicer doesn't respect Lame's codec settings when ripping CDs
Using Sound Juicer I am able to rip CDs very conveniently. I would like to rip them in about 256 kbit/s variable bitrate. To accomplish this I have defined the settings for mp3 in gnome-audio-profiles-...
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How to configure SoundJuicer mysterious mp3 encoding settings?
When I rip a CD to mp3 using Sound Juicer I get just broken mp3 files. I like to rip VBR files, they look fine, but the reported bitrate is always 32kbit/s. See:
mp3check -a 01.\ Anita.mp3
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Audex ripper codecs and FreeDB database access
I'd rather know how to download the codecs (mp3 flac etc etc) for Audex (ripper), is there a way to get them using the terminal? I have tried with the links available on ubuntu site but nothing ...
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Freedb / Asunder : Unknown Host Name
I just downloaded Asunder and ran it and get an Unknown Host Name error which apparently is because freedb is no longer a thing. That was 9 months ago. Why was Asunder still try to access freedb and ...
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Is it possible to ripping a CD via another computer?
I have multiple computer on my local network. Some of it use Windows OS. On one of Windows system, it had one CD drive. I'm also have Ubuntu system on another computer.
This's the scheme:
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Double audio cd ripping weirdness
Since I installed Ubuntu 12.04, Rhythmbox, Banshee and Sound Juicer have started acting weird around double cd's, and specifically, cd #2 of said double cd.
Sometimes, they will show the information ...
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Audex CD ripper not in repositories
My favourite CD ripper Audex doesn't seem to be in the repositories for 17.10. Is it available by any other means?
Thanks!
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How to rip an audio track in flac from a DVD video?
More and more audio CD are sold together with a DVD video containing bonus tracks. I want to rip only the audio part of those videos using a losseless audio codec, ideally flac for me.
Is there an ...
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How to finish setup of dvd::rip?
I had isntalled dvd:rip and trying to finish setup, but while checking dependencies I found out that missed rar, and it's necessary to install old version (min 2.71 and max 2.99).
By default I could ...
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How can I rip audio from an audio CD in .bin format?
I've downloaded the .bin, .cue and .cdt files of an audio CD (freely available), but I'd prefer to have the audio in FLAC format on my computer. How do I convert the audio tracks of the .bin file to ...
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Audio cd ripping 18.04
I put an audio cd in the drive on my new 18.04 installation, started Rhythmbox, selected all and clicked "Extract". It extracted the first track and stopped. Whenever I try to rip more tracks, I get ...
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How to import audio CD as .m4a with album art?
I have a bunch of music CDs that I want to digitize as .m4as with album art, so that I can use them with iTunes on a virtual machine. Is there a simple way to just read the tracks off the CD in .m4a ...
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Embedding Album Art While Ripping
Ubuntu One just released an update to the music app for Android and it says that it will now show embedded album art. I'd like to try this out, but I can't figure out how to embed the album art while ...
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Rubyripper crash before creating MP3 on 16.04
Installed Rubyripper 0.6.2 and Lame 64 bit v3.99.5 on Ubuntu 16.04. Configured lame codec using default entry in Rubyripper preferences (-V 3 --id3v2-only).
It starts off OK, then crashes out after ...
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Changing editor in abcde
I ran abcde, but wanted to edit the CD information. When I said yes, it gave me a menu of editors to choose from. I unintentionally selected nano as the editor. I canceled C-c'd the process. Now ...
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How to fix VOBU Read Errors in k9copy?
I am trying to backup a few DVDs of mine. For this purpose, I looked at k9copy. When I start the process my terminal drowns in VOBU Read errors. -- And those are serious, as they are followed by four ...
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Why no support for Whipper - cd ripping software?
Curious why Whipper isn't available from Ubuntu repos?
You may be curious why I'm after that when there is other software out there. Well, it and RubyRipper were developed after ExactAudioCopy (EAC), ...
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Ripping audio CDs under Ubuntu 16.04
ripping of audio CDs does not work on my Ubuntu 16.04 PC since I installed it. I installed all codecs (I am aware of) as well as "restricted extras". Any audio CD is recognized when inserted and ...
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How to read/rip audio tracks from a malformed CD?
On Ubuntu 10.04, Linux 2.6.32-70-generic #137-Ubuntu SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux
I successfully read and write CDs (DVD drive), including playing and ripping audio CDs.
However some audio CDs don't play and ...
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Is there a way of making Banshee use FreeDB?
Basically, Banshee currently uses MusicBrainz for CD Ripping, but some albums that I have haven't been in there, but have been in FreeDB, is there a way of making Banshee use FreeDB when I rip CDs?
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How to "Rip" music with 16.04 LTS
I just upgraded from Ubuntu 12.04 LTS to 16.04 LTS.
I have a music CD that I wanted to add to my hard drive and I cannot find a tool to convert / "RIP" the music.
Sound Juicer is recommended and ...
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Cannot open The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy bluray
I am having trouble opening The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy bluray on Xubuntu 14.04. I am able to open other encrypted bluray discs just fine and rip them with MakeMKV. This specific disc is the ...
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How can I rip a CD in ALAC or AIFF formats?
I am presently running iTunes in a VirtualBox with Windows 8 to rip my CDs to ALAC or AIFF. This is due to historical reasons where I migrated from OSX to Ubuntu and still love my iPod Classic.
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Trouble playing and ripping CD audio files on Linux Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 32-bit
I'm trying to rip audio files from a CD onto a subdirectory of the Music directory. My Linux 12.04 LTS 32-bit came with Audacity, Brasero, Banshee, and Rhythmbox. (Yes, not one, four players. Go ...
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Music CD-R holds a total of 260 MB of "lossless" audio?
I just ripped a full (all 74 minutes used) Music CD-R to six .flac files, one for each track. In total, the files add up to 262.1 MB. I thought a CD was supposed to hold 700 MB. Where did the other ...
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Export to a document the track information of a music CD
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Software: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Banshee 2.6.2, Sound Juicer 3.5.0, Rhythmbox 3.0.2, Brasero 3.10.0
I successfully burnt several music CDs with Banshee via Brasero. These CDs have author-and-...
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Audex unavailable in 20.04LTS
My favourite CD ripper Audex more doesn't seem to be in the repositories for 20.04LTS, and installing the last available version in 16.04 LTS doesn't work because kde-runtime isn't available. Is it ...
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How can I use AIFF encoding with abcde?
I see that AIFF encoding is now available with the latest development version of the CD ripper abcde.
How can I easily test this out under Ubuntu's Xenial Xerus?
(Full disclaimer: I personally added ...
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Is gstreamer the best encoder for vorbis or is there a better encoding engine I should use?
I have sound juicer installed and I want to rip to vorbis.ogg. Is gstreamer the best encoder for vorbis or is there a better encoding engine I should use.
The default gstreamer profile is
audio/x-...
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Ripping a CD: how to write ISRCs into ID3 tags?
On professionally pressed Audio-CDs the ISRC (International Standard Recording Code) identifies any recorded track with 12 digits (like this: ATP811301008)
It's usually not part of the CD-Text that ...
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Why does dcfldd always fail on cd-roms that also contain music?
Ive been working on digitizing my entire library of physical discs, using dcfldd to make disc image copies of every cd-rom & dvd Ive ever owned so I can take them off to the thrift store and save ...
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Ripping CDs incredibly slow since updating to 16.04
I recently updated from 14.04 to 16.04 and since then, ripping cds has been incredibly slow. Actually, I have not tried to wait for completion of one cd rip because progress is so slow. I have tried ...