Abour ripping music CD to mp3 files

[satimis]

Hi all.

Ubuntu 22.04 desktop

Please advise an ease and reliable way ripping music CD to mp3 files?

Thanks

Regards

Edit
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Just found;
How to Rip CDs From the Linux Command Line
https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-rip-c...x-command-line

Can I use it to rip all music tracks on music CD to .mp3 files

$ apt policy abcde

abcde:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 2.9.3-1
  Version table:
     2.9.3-1 500
        500 http://hk.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/universe amd64 Packages
        500 http://hk.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/universe i386 Packages

The package "abcde" is on repo

[ajgreeny]

Yes, abcde is the package to use.
Once set up with the configuration to suit the output you want, it is simply a case of putting a CD in the drive and then using terminal command abcde.
It will then create your mp3, flac, or whatever else you chose, and do several filetype outputs simultaneously if you need more than just mp3.

[satimis]

Yes, abcde is the package to use.
Once set up with the configuration to suit the output you want, it is simply a case of putting a CD in the drive and then using terminal command abcde.
It will then create your mp3, flac, or whatever else you chose, and do several filetype outputs simultaneously if you need more than just mp3.

Hi@ajgreeny,

Thanks for your advice.

Is it possible to rip the whole music CD with one click?

Regards

[satimis]

Hi all,

The story behind my intention ripping music CD is below;

I have more than 500 music CDs and >90% are classical music, including Opera, from famous composers such as Beethoven, Mozart, Schubert, Tschaikowsky, Paganini, Rossini, Brahms etc. The CDs can play in my home HiFi system without problem and with excellant sound quality.

The CDs are already not on the market. If damaged they are not easy to replace even with money therefore I must make some precaution. I can clone (burn) another 500 CD copies but storage may be my headache.

Another thought comes to my head is ripping all 500 CDs to computer. Then I can burn them again on a new CD if any old CD damaged.

Comment and suggestion would be appreciated.


Edit
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Just found following article which is quite interesting;

How to Rip CDs From the Linux Command Line
https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-rip-c...x-command-line

[Dennis N]

Comment and suggestion would be appreciated.

Definitely you want to back them up to computer files. I did it maybe 20 years ago for my large CD collection.

I would use a GUI application. I think it's much easier to set up the encoding parameters. No need to spend time consulting a man page. All distros have one or more applications of the GUI type that handle the ripping and encoding. The underlying ripping and encoding libraries are the same.

Ubuntu has several GUI applications in the Software Store that handle the ripping and encoding. I only have used Brasero. No problems with it.

My go-to application in the past was grip, but there no longer is a .deb for it - only .rpm packages (Fedora, Red Hat, OpenSuse). So if you have Fedora installed, you can get that as well.

if you are an audiophile and/or want best quality, use flac when encoding instead of mp3 or ogg. But the file sizes for flac will be larger. Many (me included) find mp3 or ogg with high-enough quality settings to be quite acceptable. For recording speech, lower quality settings in mp3 and ogg are good enough and save space.

[TheFu]

I use this:

#!/bin/bash

abcde -a cddb,read,encode,tag,move,clean -d /dev/cdrom \
      -j 4  -o flac,vorbis:"-q 6" -V -x

YMMV.

[satimis]

I use this:

#!/bin/bash

abcde -a cddb,read,encode,tag,move,clean -d /dev/cdrom \
      -j 4  -o flac,vorbis:"-q 6" -V -x

Hi@TheFu,

1)
Is it the command line will rip the whole music CD to .mp3 files?

2)
If I create following folders for ripping my music CD;

~/MP3_ripped_on_CDs
~/MP3_ripped_on_CDs/CD-1
~/MP3_ripped_on_CDs/CD-2
~/MP3_ripped_on_CDs/CD-3
etc.

Then on Terminal, how to run your code? Thanks

Regards

[TheFu]

1) Try it. What does it do?

2) explainshell.com - check it out. It will help greatly.

YMMV. That means it works for my needs, but may not work for yours. I think it is close to what you want, but only you can decide BY TRYING IT.

[satimis]

1) Try it. What does it do?

2) explainshell.com - check it out. It will help greatly.

YMMV. That means it works for my needs, but may not work for yours. I think it is close to what you want, but only you can decide BY TRYING IT.

HI@TheFu
Performed following steps;

1) create following folders
~/Music/MP3_ripped_on_CDs/CD-1

2) on Terminal run
$ cd ~/MP3_ripped_on_CDs/CD-1/

3)
$ abcde -a cddb,read,encode,tag,move,clean -d /dev/cdrom \
> -j 4 -o flac,vorbis:"-q 6" -V -x

[ERROR] abcde: flac is not in your path.
[INFO] Define the full path to the executable if it exists on your system.
[INFO] Hint: sudo apt-get install flac

4)
$ sudo apt install flac

5)
Ran the command lines again

This time it worked, converting all tracks on the CD to .flac and .ogg files

01.Track_1-Track_1.flac
01.Track_1-Track_1.ogg
02.Track_1-Track_1.flac
02.Track_1-Track_1.ogg
03.Track_1-Track_1.flac
03.Track_1-Track_1.ogg
.....
......

There are 99 tracks on the CD. After finished the CD was ejected automatically.

01.Track_1-Track_1.flac
and
01.Track_1-Track_1.ogg
are same files

Is there any way to convert all tracks to .mp3 files only.

Thanks

Regards

Edit
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Following command line can convert all .ogg files to .mp3 files

for i in *.ogg; do ffmpeg -i "$i" -acodec libmp3lame "${i%.*}.mp3"; done

Following solution is NOT an ideal one

for i in *.ogg; do ffmpeg -i "$i" -acodec libmp3lame "${i%.*}.mp3"; done
| rm *.ogg | rm *.flac

[ajgreeny]

You need to either add mp3 to the listed output in that command or if you don't need the flac or ogg files, just replace flac ,vorbis with mp3.
There will be a different quality reference needed for the mp3 files as a think that -q 6 does not work for mp3s but I can't recall how it is done. A search should find that easily enough!