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

[<wabenbau@gmail.com>]

"Walter Dnes" <waltdnes@waltdnes.org> 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?

There are for example mp3c, grip, ripperx and probably also some other 
programs that can do this job.

There is no metadata for the songtitles on the CD but AFAIK every CD 
has an unique ID. The CD ripper programs are searching online for this
ID in the so called cddb (CD DataBase) and if someone has insert the
songtitles of the according CD to this database before, the ripped 
CD tracks are automatically renamed to the respective title. 
If nobody has added your CDs to the database, you can do this by 
yourself with the ripper software which can also transfer these
information to the cddb. 

Sorry for my probably unintelligible sentences, but I'm not a native
speaker. :-)

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Regards
wabe