Cannot open Audio CD to rip

[starkiron]

I try to open an audio CD so I can rip the tracks but I get this error:

0: No URI handler for the cdda protocol found

• Operating system: Ubuntu 24.04
• Strawberry Version: 1.0.23 installed through Ubuntu repositories

Strawberry support said, "You are missing dependencies, most likely libgstcdio part of gst-plugins-ugly. You will be better off getting help through Ubuntu support."

[Dennis N]

Are you sure it is capable of ripping CDs? I don't see any mention of ripping tracks on their list of features.

Apps like sound-juicer are designed for ripping.

[#&thj^%]

Along with what Dennis N has advised, here are a few more to read over: https://www.slant.co/topics/2443/~be...x-like-systems

My choice is "ABCDE" I've just used it for many years now.

BTW I have never got Strawberry to rip CD's

EDIT: I forgot to mention if this not installed please do so:

 apt policy gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly

[starkiron]

Are you sure it is capable of ripping CDs? I don't see any mention of ripping tracks on their list of features.

Apps like sound-juicer are designed for ripping.

Ah, you are right. I was confused because they have a "Transcoding" feature which I thought was for ripping.

Sound Juicer will not rip to 320 kbps mp3 which is what I want to do.

[starkiron]

Will ABCDE rip mp3 to 320 kbps and also find and label the track names?

Asunder and sound juicer will not rip to 320 kbps mp3.

[#&thj^%]

Will ABCDE rip mp3 to 320 kbps and also find and label the track names?

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For that I use:

abcde -o 'flac:-8,mp3:-b 320' -G

My complete install is this:

 sudo apt-get install abcde cd-discid lame cdparanoia id3 id3v2

What this means is that you can run abcde from the command line, without any options, and expect it to rip and encode all the tracks on a CD. By default, Abcde will complete the following tasks: cddb, read, encode, tag, move, and clean.

[#&thj^%]

To be fair "ripperx will do it all"

[TheFu]

+1 for abcde. I used it to re-rip my multi-thousand disc collection.

This time, I kept FLAC and Vorbis 192 kbps. MP3 is so 1990s. With my best Shure cans, I cannot hear the difference between FLAC (compressed+lossless) and Vorbis-192.

If you are an Apple house, AAC-192 is probably equivalent, but not F/LOSS. Pretty much any player supports Vorbis audio these days ... Google and Spotify both use it for their video and audio streams.

[starkiron]

I would like a variable bitrate. Is that command a constant or variable bitrate?

[starkiron]

What provides the best quality audio?

1. Rip audio CD to FLAC and then transcode to 320 kbps variable bitrate mp3?
or
2. Rip audio CD directly to 320 kbps variable bitrate mp3?

Thank you for the Vorbis tip. I will look into that. I would need to know if my Volkswagen will play Vorbis files from USB drives and SD cards. MP3 is most universally accepted.