whtboy Posted February 1, 2006 Share Posted February 1, 2006 it's an old compaq P3 running ubuntu linux with a 320GB disk and an m-audio audiophile 2496 card: http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/Audiophile2496-main.html i'm still working on the xorg config to get the s-video output working so i can use my tv for a full x11 environment. right now i'm just using a text mode player to control it with my laptop over ssh. i've got about 10GB of music transferring over right now with rsync. this is going to be bada$$ when it's done =) -jacob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daddy Dee Posted February 1, 2006 Share Posted February 1, 2006 congrats. That is one big hard drive. what format are you using for your music? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whtboy Posted February 1, 2006 Author Share Posted February 1, 2006 i've got about 1000 mp3s that are all 160kbps or higher (4GB) and about 500 songs encoded with flac (lossless, a little over 9GB). i just learned about lossless encoding recently. all the new stuff i rip is done with flac, which is why i bought the big drive =) jacob@bonham:~/FLAC 0 $ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 9.2G 1.8G 7.0G 21% / tmpfs 126M 0 126M 0% /dev/shm tmpfs 126M 13M 114M 10% /lib/modules/2.6.12-9-386/volatile /dev/hda6 283G 2.8G 266G 2% /home jacob@bonham:~/FLAC 0 $ -j Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whtboy Posted February 2, 2006 Author Share Posted February 2, 2006 Here's the curses interface. I actually like text interfaces, but I imagine my girlfriend wouldn't be so keen on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rplace Posted February 2, 2006 Share Posted February 2, 2006 I have been giving the whole CD ripping process a lot of thought lately since I had a HHD failure and lost over 4,000 songs. Until recently I had all my "real" CDs ripped and on my computer using an Audiotron to play them through my system. The real PITA in this whole thing is swapping out CDs and waiting for it to process them. After a lot of digging this is what I have been doing for the last few days: I use EAC as the front end. Download Mareo as a manager of your various compression formats. FInally configure the thing as you like. What you end up with is a way to load your CD once and in one shot rip it to multiple formats. it will also put the various files in their own directories. i.e. one directory for FLAC files and another for MP3, of course it also makes sub directories for artist/album/etc. Since hard drive storage is cheap and my time is valuable. I am making three versions at one time .WAV, .FLAC and 320 CBR MP3s. I am hoping I will never have to rip CDs again. I also have a MIRRA personal server (incredible piece of HW/SW) to handle up to 8 versions of real time backups now. This HHD failure really was a huge loss []You could actually use Mareo to rip to 5 or more different formats if you like or MP3s of different quality for home, car and portable players...very slick!Let me hopefully save you and others a huge amount of time. Just about everything you need to know is on these pageshttp://webearce.com.ar/ - Mareo download and EAC configurationhttp://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php - Lots of good ripping infohttp://www.exactaudiocopy.de/ - EAChttp://users.pandora.be/satcp/tutorials.htm - EAC configuration tutorialhttp://mp3.radified.com/ - Ripping and Encoding info with lots of EAC how toEAC is a bit difficult to configure at first. But it will make exact bit for bit copies with lots of error checking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whtboy Posted February 2, 2006 Author Share Posted February 2, 2006 I've got EAC on my laptop. When I used it on my scratched CDs it just got stuck indefinitely. I'll check out Mareo, thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rplace Posted February 2, 2006 Share Posted February 2, 2006 Are you sure EAC got stuck? On scratched CDs it can take some time to rip them. It will make up to 5 passes on anything it finds bad. Also there is a ton of different configurations and tweeks for EAC. You have to experiment a bit to find what works best for your drive. Everything I read online suggests that EAC is the best front end for accurately copying CDs to different formats. There is also a burst setting that will copy very fast, but not perform the error checking. I have to use that from time to time on odd discs and older CD drives. If you are after fast EAC might not be for you. If you are after the best quality I have not ran into anything better so far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ranjith Posted February 2, 2006 Share Posted February 2, 2006 I too, only recently, started ripping them into the flac format and it is definitely superior in quality. A lot bigger in file size but the sound is surprising. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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