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'What do you gain?'
Authored by: Peganthyrus on Jun 12, '02 01:12:39PM

What I gain is this:

While I'm at work, or asleep, my computer can be grinding away for about five or six hours generating high-quality VBR mp3s of six to eight full CDs. If I stick a cd in the drive and go off to work or bed, it'll finish that one cd, then just sit there uselessly.

I am not saving any steps, but I am making efficient use of my time and of the computer's time. By doing a couple extra steps up front, I am freed from the need to have a physical CD in the computer to encode it. This is vastly accelerating the process of getting my several hundred CDs into the machine; for about the same investment of <i>my</i> time and attention, I get around eight discs encoded instead of maybe three.

I also don't need to enter any information into the machine; since the system thinks these are real CDs, CDDB/freedb gets queried for the full track data - artist/album/track title.

The simple raw-data rip happens in a few minutes; a rip to mp3 takes forever if you're a fan of VBR encoding like I am.



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'What do you gain?'
Authored by: timrob on Jun 13, '02 10:14:56PM

Seems to me you have to extract the audio either as an image or whatever. Why not just stick a cd in and let iTunes do the extraction, conversion and CDDB lookups for you in one shot.
Or you could get autolame which would allow you to extract .wav files to a directory and automagically rip them to .mp3.
I believe source is available and you can change the conversion program to whatever you like to use. Just Google "autolame"

Tim Roberts
Waterknot Music
Nashville, TN



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