Audio: Rip, Split, Join, Tag
Ripping audio from CDROM
Sound Juicer
- Ubuntu installs Sound Juicer by default. Insert the CD in the drive. Open it with Sound Juicer. If the correct Title doesn’t appear, you can type it in.
- Click on Edit/Prefereces to set the Music folder where you want the files to be stored and the Output format. Here we see ogg.
- Close and click on Extract. The extracted files will be found in the chosen music folder.
Grip
Grip is a simple alternative to Sound Juicer for Gnome. It works about the same way as Sound Juicer. Here are a few screenshots. Note that the output location is set in “Encode file format” in the second screenshot. Files will be going to ~/ogg directory. Grip has a great Help. All those switches in the Encode file format are described in the Help.
K3b for KDE
A plus for K3b is that you can choose to rip tracks or create a single file. This can be nice for audiobooks so that you don’t have that time in between tracks. There might be 30 tracks in a 1 hour recording because of splits with every pause in the reading.
Put in the CDROM and right click and choose extract with K3b. That gives you the something looking like the first screenshot.
Click on “Start Ripping” and something like the second screenshot appears. There you see the choice to create a single file. There you also choose the file type and the Target directory where you want the files to go.
The third screenshot shows what is in the File Naming tab. In this view the single file option has not been selected; so you see all of the tracks. Give the pattern name of your choice. “%n” will give sequential numbers. Click on “Start Ripping” when you are ready
Encoding mp3
The above programs will encode in ogg or mp3. Lame needs to be installed to encode mp3. Currently the average home user does not need a license to encode mp3. See MP3 Tech under “Patents and MP3” and mp3licensing.com royalty rates note which says: “No license is needed for private, non-commercial activities (e.g., home-entertainment, receiving broadcasts and creating a personal music library), not generating revenue or other consideration of any kind or for entities with associated annual gross revenue less than US$ 100 000.00.”
To convert ogg to mp3 and mp3 to ogg see OGG to MP3
Join, Split, Tag
See these other pages for how to join, split, and tag your files:
- Join Audio Files with sox or mp3wrap
- Split Audio Files with mp3splt
- Tag Audio Files with Amarok or EasyTag
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