Re: Hardware/Software considerations when ripping
Reply #1 – 2024-01-21 16:35:09
Exaile will be my music library/player Why not use Foobar2000? ; because in my opinion there is simply not a Linux equivalent that matches that, at least to my knowledge.Ripping software will be “Asunder”. I know that's Linux software, but the last I knew one could use EAC (Exact Audio Copy) if setup with a older version of Wine (I think v4 series or older works (which is easy enough to do with PlayOnLinux) as v5 or newer does not) that can still see ones CD/DVD burners. but I guess it depends on how picky one is with ripping CD's as I am more of the mindset as long as there is no obvious read errors, chances are it's close enough to a EAC etc rip as I can't imagine there would be any noticeable difference as long as there is no obvious read errors. so Asunder might be good enough in this regard. I was just toying with Asunder a moment ago (on my Linux Mint PC) and it does seem decent enough as it's default rips CD's faster, but there is a option to make it a bit more picky as the first rip went quickly and the second one after a certain point slowed down quite a bit in the ripping process etc..flac rips compression will be 0 (zero) Why have compression 0? ; I would use the default of 5 or just max it out at 8 for the storage space savings. I can't imagine there is much, if any, reason to use 0 compression over default of 5 or maximum of 8 as you are just wasting hard drive space and if you got a large collection that will begin to waste quite a bit of space and there is no sound quality loss as FLAC is a lossless format. even toying with Asunder a moment ago... it default to FLAC '5' and I see, at least based on my Linux Mint 21.x series (which is Ubuntu 22.04 LTS based), it's using FLAC v1.3.3 from Aug 4th 2019.