Subject: Re: audio ripping & encoding suggestions???
From: Scott Frankel (leknarf@pacbell.net)
Date: Wed Aug 29 2001 - 22:32:36 MDT
Thanks for the tips!
Scott
On Wednesday 29 August 2001 01:53, Iain Stevenson wrote:
> As far as I know, there isn't much out there for AAC. From a market
> perspective, the big battle is between MP3 and WMA from our friends (sic)
> in Redmond. Anything other than MP3 generally makes sense if you are
> intending to stream to analogue modem connections. AAC is a
> (non-royalty-free) standard that is being adopted but not yet on a wide
> scale.
>
> The Open Source and truly royalty free encoding alternative to the
> proprietary audio coding formats is Ogg Vorbis (www.vorbis.com) and for
> video it's Open DivX (www.projectmayo.com).
>
> I've ripped a number of CDs using CD paranoia but using iTunes on a Mac is
> much simpler and facilitates the editing of ID3 tags. However, it only
> uses CDDB at the moment. There are many ID3 tagging utilities available on
> freshmeat.net that you can use to tag and archive MP3 files.
>
> If you're feeling adventurous, you can build an MP3 jukebox on a linux
> server using icecast and obs (obs.freeamp.org). Obs comes with tools that
> automate the ripping of CDs.
>
> Iain
>
> on 29/8/01 6:11 pm, Scott Frankel at leknarf@pacbell.net wrote:
> > Anyone have a favorite doco or info site for audio ripping
> > and mp3 (or aac) encoding under linux? I'm looking for
> > a 101, basic information; i.e.: how to encode ID3 tags,
> > *what* are ID3 tags, &c.
> >
> > I think I'll be using cdparanoia for ripping CD's and lame
> > for mp3 encoding. Then xmms for playback. Is the AAC
> > format supported yet? Is it worthwhile to consider? How
> > can I incorporate the freedb database into this pipeline?
> >
> > Thanks in advance -
> > Scott
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