[linux-audio-user] CD ripping, burning etc and dev question

[Brett McCoy]

Greg wrote:

> short question: is CDparanoia still the standard for ripping /
> encoding music? (xiph.org/paranoia was last updated in 2001)
> more rambling: I want to protect my cd collection from destruction and
> make use of an older computer by outfitting it with a large hard disk
> and devote it to storing my music collection.  I want to make a script
> that more or less automatically rips a CD to my preferences.  So I
> want a command line CD ripper.

cdparanoia still seems to be the standard (grip, the GTK-based ripper, 
has a builtin cdparanoia by default)

> The "grand" vision:  to eventually make a low res GUI that displays on
> a small LCD or TV to rip music and navigate the music library. 

Look around on freshmeat.net, there may be already be something out 
there that does this.

> Specifically what i would want is to have attractive buttons that call
> other programs and some sort of basic file browser capability.  What
> do you think would be the smartest (easiest) language and packages to
> do this with?

I'd use Perl or Python with one of the many GUI packages available for 
these languages.  But like I said, there is probably something already 
available that does what you want.

-- Brett
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