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

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On 26/08/2015 22:06, 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?
> 


media-sound/beets. Best music metadata manager out there, period. There
isn't any song metadata as such on a CD, so beets uses musicbrainz as a
data source. You sometimes have to get your hands dirty and manage it
properly, especially for more esoteric CDs like you just bought. Or
maybe you're lucky :-)

I find for popular CDs (like what my kids buy in music stores), that k3b
does a fine job of getting metadata when ripping - it looks the CD up on
CDDB.

To do the job properly, and fully manage all the metadata, nothing comes
close to beets. It's also a cli python app which will go down well
around here, none of that "point mith a mouse and click" nonsense :-)

-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com