Re: [gentoo-user] CD ripper that generates song titles?

[covici@ccs.covici.com]

Fernando Rodriguez <frodriguez.developer@outlook.com> wrote:

> On Monday, September 07, 2015 7:45:47 PM covici@ccs.covici.com wrote:
> > Alex Corkwell <i.am.the.memory@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 04:06:10PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
> > > >   I went to the CNE (Canadian National Exhibition) yesterday and
> > > > indulged in a buying spree of 18 CD sets of my fave music (basically
> > > > anything pop/rock/country pre-Beatles).  I now have over 20 CDs that I
> > > > want to rip to flac eventually.  I dread the gruntwork in renaming
> > > > tracks like track01.cdda.wav, etc.  What Gentoo ebuilds are there for
> > > > stuff that'll get ahold of track titles?  Is it in the form of metadata
> > > > on the CD?
> > > 
> > > I personally like using morituri [1] for ripping my CDs.
> > > It's a little bit slower than some, but very accurate (I believe it
> > > compares several reads, just to make sure there were no errors).
> > > It's not available in the main portage tree, but it's in the dev-zero
> > > overlay as media-sound/morituri.
> > > 
> > > It can rip to flac (with optional cue files) and works from the
> > > terminal, if you prefer that.
> > > Additionally, it can adjust for drive read offsets when writing files,
> > > and is one of the few Linux things I've found which check the rips
> > > against AccurateRip.
> > > 
> > > What's particularly nice about it is that it uses what little metadata
> > > and such it can get from the CD to look it up in MusicBrainz and add in
> > > the title, artist, etc.
> > > It also uses this to name the files according to album, artist, song
> > > title, etc.
> > > The template it uses to name the files and directories is relatively
> > > configurable, as well.
> > > 
> > > If you need more configurable tagging, cover art downloading, and such,
> > > then look into Picard [2], which is in the main portage tree as
> > > media-sound/picard.
> > > It uses MusicBrainz [3] to get a whole bunch of metadata, tags, cover
> > > art, and other stuff, and can rename files much more flexibly than
> > > morituri.
> > > 
> > > This is especially nice in combination with morituri, since morituri
> > > saves the MusicBrainz ID into the metadata of the ripped files.
> > > Normally, Picard looks files up by either the available metadata, or by
> > > the acoustic fingerprint.
> > > Since the MusicBrainz ID is already there, it immediately knows which
> > > album it is (although it may have the wrong release if you want to be
> > > that precise).
> > > 
> > > The only caveats with Picard that I know of are that it's GUI only, it
> > > can't embed full size cover art if the image is above some large
> > > resolution, and I think that submitting extra fingerprints requires you
> > > to register with AcoustID [4].
> > > Also, it's not an actual ripper.
> > > It just works on the metadata and tags of flac, mp3, and maybe a few
> > > other types.
> > > 
> > > I personally like to rip with morituri, then polish the tagging and get
> > > the cover art with Picard.
> > > 
> > > [1] http://thomas.apestaart.org/morituri/trac/wiki
> > > [2] https://picard.musicbrainz.org/
> > > [3] https://musicbrainz.org/
> > > [4] https://acoustid.org/
> > 
> > In trying to emerge morituri from the overlay I get the folloing:
> > 
> > make[1]: Entering directory
> > '/var/tmp/portage/media-sound/morituri-0.2.3/work/morituri-0.2.3'
> > if test -e ./.git; then make REVISION; fi
> > make[1]: Leaving directory
> > '/var/tmp/portage/media-sound/morituri-0.2.3/work/morituri-0.2.3'
> > ** Message: pygobject_register_sinkfunc is deprecated (GstObject)
> > Progress:
> > 00:10
> >  (null)*(null) (null)ACCESS DENIED(null):  mkstemp:
> >  
> /run/user/0/orcexec.XXXXXX-------------------------------------------------------------------------]
> >           Building documentation: morituri.common.checksum
> > 		(/var/tmp/portage/media-
> sound/morituri-0.2.3/work/morituri-0.2.3/morituri/common/checksum.py)
> > (gst-plugin-scanner:3783): GStreamer-CRITICAL **:
> > gst_structure_empty_new: assertion 'gst_structure_validate_name (name)'
> > failed
> > 
> > (gst-plugin-scanner:3783): Clutter-CRITICAL **: Unable to initialize
> > Clutter: Could not initialize Gdk
> > ** Message: pygobject_register_sinkfunc is deprecated (GstObject)
> > Warning: Unable to extract the base list for
> > twisted.trial.unittest.TestDecorator: Bad dotted name
> > Warning: Module gobject._gobject is shadowed by a variable with the same
> > name.
> > Warning: 18 markup errors were found while processing docstrings.  Use
> > the verbose switch (-v) to display markup errors.
> > >>> Source compiled.
> >  (null)*(null) --------------------------- ACCESS VIOLATION SUMMARY
> >  ---------------------------
> >  (null)*(null) LOG FILE: "/var/log/sandbox/sandbox-3700.log"
> >  (null)*(null)
> > VERSION 1.0
> > FORMAT: F - Function called
> > FORMAT: S - Access Status
> > FORMAT: P - Path as passed to function
> > FORMAT: A - Absolute Path (not canonical)
> > FORMAT: R - Canonical Path
> > FORMAT: C - Command Line
> > 
> > F: mkstemp
> > S: deny
> > P: /run/user/0/orcexec.XXXXXX
> > A: /run/user/0/orcexec.XXXXXX
> > R: /run/user/0/orcexec.XXXXXX
> > C: /usr/lib64/gstreamer-0.10/gst-plugin-scanner -l
> >  (null)*(null)
> >  
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > 
> > >>> Failed to emerge media-sound/morituri-0.2.3, Log file:
> > 
> > >>>  '/var/log/portage/media-sound:morituri-0.2.3:20150907-233836.log'
> > 
> > 
> > So, how can I fix or is this a dead package i.e. no maintainance?
> > 
> > Thanks in advance for any ideas.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> If you trust the ebuild you can try emerging it with FEATURES="-sandbox" or 
> add an exception for the temp directory on the ebuild.
> 
> https://devmanual.gentoo.org/function-reference/sandbox-functions/

So, if I wanted to add addpredict /run where would I put it?  Somewhere
in the ebuild?  I still tink its pretty funky.

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