How to cleanly copy CD music files (.wav) w/ metadata ???

[ozark_hillbilly]

I am trying to find the cleanest way to copy CD music files (.wav) onto my hard drive so that the song/artist information is retained.
Currently I am simply copying the .wav files onto my /Music folder from the music CD, but they have no attached data regarding song/artist etc. The songs
are listed in the folder as Track 1.wav, Track 2.wav, etc. Under the Properties - General Tab no information is listed as well.

I then use FLAC, in Terminal mode, to convert the .wav files to a more manageable size while retaining sampling rate quality.

Is there a way to include the information about the artist/album/song title during the copy process? Rhythmbox shows the information but I
believe it retrieves this off the web and not the CD itself. Renaming songs manually by referencing the CD jacket material and transcribing it
has no future to me. It's cumbersome and time consuming.
Any suggestions are welcome. Thanks.

[Keith_Helms]

CDs don't have any song/artist information on them. They do have a disc ID number on them which various player and ripper software packages use to lookup that information from CDDB servers (CD database). Wav files also do not have any tag information on them other than just the file and directory names. Your best bet is to use a ripper that will invoke an MP3 or FLAC encoder and supply that encoder with tag information about the album and songs.

You mentioned using Rhythmbox, so take a look at this site. It's an older post, but the instructions might still be valid or might at least get you started:

http://www.maketecheasier.com/rip-audio-cd-in-linux/

[oldfred]

I have always use Sound Juicer/Gnome Audio CD extractor. But also have seen Asunder recommended. Both are in repository.
I change a few settings and rip to flac.

Several years ago when I converted to mp3 and copied to my mp3 player, it seemed slow copying. But when I converted and copied in one step with Sound Converter it seemed faster. So I do not have mp3s on my hard drive anymore.

[ozark_hillbilly]

Thanks folks! Asunder seems to fit the bill quite nicely.

[andrew.46]

Just as point of interest: wav files actually can carry meta data:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAV#Metadata

but I have yet to find a method of doing this under Linux. And of course it is not really what the OP was after .

[Keith_Helms]

Just as point of interest: wav files actually can carry meta data:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAV#Metadata

but I have yet to find a method of doing this under Linux. And of course it is not really what the OP was after .

Interesting. Ya learn something every day! Does abcde support wav metadata?

[andrew.46]

Interesting. Ya learn something every day! Does abcde support wav metadata?

No, not at all. A linux application to add meta data to wav files would be great and tagging could be done post rip but as far as I am aware such a tagger does not yet exist for Linux...

[mc4man]

No, not at all. A linux application to add meta data to wav files would be great and tagging could be done post rip but as far as I am aware such a tagger does not yet exist for Linux...

Possibly with kid3 (kde or qt) though player recognition could be sparse
(- dBpoweramp in wine tags wav but again only some players see.

[mcduck]

Just as point of interest: wav files actually can carry meta data:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAV#Metadata

but I have yet to find a method of doing this under Linux. And of course it is not really what the OP was after .

Of course that wouldn't help the OP since audio CD's don't actually contain WAV files, or any files at all (even though your file manager might be smart enough to visualize the disc's content as such to the user).

[mc4man]

Of course that wouldn't help the OP since audio CD's don't actually contain WAV files, or any files at all (even though your file manager might be smart enough to visualize the disc's content as such to the user).

As soon as the track(s) are either directly copied via the file manager or ripped to .wav with an audio cd ripper then they are wave (pcm) files so don't get your point..
(- a direct copied track can contain a bit of metadata, in gnome - 'gvfs-cdda using libcdio 0.83 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu' or similar