Linux MP3 Ripping Tools
Linux command line toolset with options that will create archival quality MP3 files from your CDs, including ID3 metadata tags from CDDB:
- Dekagen: Bash driver script
- XCMD: Motif CD player with static binaries. Dekagen uses cda from this package to obtain song titles from CDDB.
- cdparanoia: exact audio copy CD ripper to WAV format
- Lame: MP3 encoder
Lame options:
- -ms : stereo encoding instead of "joint stereo", uses a bit more bandwidth, but avoids possible stereo artifacts
- -h : high quality (same as -q 2)
- -v: variable bitrate encoding (best quality/size ratio)
- -V 0: highest quality VBR (bigger files)
- -b 32: minimum bitrate for VBR encoding
- -B 256: maximum bitrate for VBR encoding (can go up to 320)
Dekagen will drive all of the above, but has to be patched for the lame options. Cantus is a GUI tool with eye candy, build dependencies and corresponding footprint.
TODO: fix Dekagen "working directory" (currently a menu option, should default to current directory).
Posted by dotpeople at May 7, 2004 11:05 AM