🌈💐🌻🌺🌹🌻💐🌷🌺🌈 Jen 🌈💐🌻🌺🌹🌻💐🌷🌺🌈 Dershmender
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> I have an ancient workstation built from my second ever motherboard (a
> PII) running Debian that I use for cd-mastering/archival and also for
> forensics or recovery involving older media such as ide hard drives,
> Iomega JAZ/Zip. It doesn't have a 5-1/4" installed, but could be
> installed in a few minutes. I also have a 3.5" Superdisk drive that
> could be swapped for the conventional 3.5", but I haven't tested it yet,
> but possibly it's just more ephemera from before flash drives.
>
> I've been using the frontend program ripperX to rip to WAV and/or MP3
> ever since it branched from "Grip". Grip was using the project
> "cdparanoia" to rip to WAV after getting the CD table-of-contents info
> with cdrdao or some similar utility and query a CDDB server to get
> artist, album, and track name info and then rip everything to the
> directory/file structure and naming you wanted.
>
> The problem with ripperx, is that it doesn't easily support multiple CD
> drives. I have two. I also find GUI to be the most unwieldy way to do
> something that I want to "set and forget" like a long ripping/jitter-
> correction/encoding process.
>
> I did write wrapper scripts for ripperx that would just shuffle the
> .ripperx config file between two setups but that was short-lived. I
> accidentally nuked the scripts by typing an "rm *" carelessly in the
> wrong directory, thinking that I was in another terminal. The .config
> files survived, so I might resurrect those eventually.
>
> I yearned for back in the day when I had some command-line scripts that
> were just "read_cd" and "write_cd" and they used cdrdao and cdparanoia to
> make an exact copy of the CD, but also add in encoding to mp3.
>
> It seems that all that I have left to add is the mp3/ogg/whatever
> encoding portion. I'll be adding in mp3 first with consideration that
> there may be other formats/encoders. I will also need to break out a few
> vars into a dedicated .config file before I start that in preparation for
> the "multiple encoders" stage, which will require a somewhat involved
> "config parsing" function once those are added.
>
> I started it I few weeks back, and now have written a PHP library to read
> and write TOC files for CD_DA format and a wrapper script to rip a cd
> with command line flags for which device to use and what directory to rip
> to, etc.
>
> For writing CDs, I have a similar wrapper script that has switches for
> device and TOC filename to use for writing the CD.
>
> Right now I'm ripping XTC / Live in Concert using the 24 year old SCSI CD
> writer that I used to use for this same stuff way back in the day.
>

Quit screwing around and play video games and listen to music.