[gameprogrammer] Re: "Mission Efficiency" - Blue Collar coding

David Olofson wrote:

>On Friday 07 May 2004 08.46, grant hallman wrote:
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>>PS: I just noticed your sig, wonder if u know of a decent free
>>audio toolset? I'm trying to make mp3 copies of our CD collection,
>>so we can listen to them at the cabin as well as home w/out
>>carrying 30 lbs of CDs back and forth. I got "supersonic", not too
>>bad, but it turns out to be use-limited (no warning, i hate that!).
>>All i need right now is a way to rip about 50 CDs into mp3 files,
>>with minimal uner intervention (yes, i'm willing to swap CDs and
>>name the destination file ;)
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>Well, I don't do that kind of stuff much, but it just happens I wanted 
>to rip my Fear Factory CDs the other week. I googled around and found 
>"grip"; a GUI ripper for GNOME, which did the job just fine. It can 
>rip and encode (mp3, ogg or flac) single or partial tracks and entire 
>CDs with just a few clicks, and lots of other stuff. It can also get 
>track names from the 'net and generate names and ID3 tags, so you 
>don't have to name the files manually.
>
>       http://nostatic.org/grip/
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>However, that probably won't help much unless you have a Un*x box 
>around... I'd think there has to be some Free (or at least FreeWare) 
>apps that do this on Windows, but I'm afraid I can't point you at 
>one, as I very rarely use Windows these days. :-/
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Before switching to Linux, I used to use CD-DA X-tractor for ripping 
CDs; it's open source and has about the same feature set as grip, IIRC.

http://xtractor.sf.net/

Sebastian

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