playing and ripping, ogg and mp3s?

[Rob Weir]

On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 04:29:31AM -0400, volvoguy said
> On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 10:01:42 +1000, Jeff Waugh <jeff.waugh at canonical.com> wrote:
> > Don't use GRIP, use Sound Juicer (Applications > Multimedia > Sound
> > Juicer CD Ripper). It's there by default on your desktop install. :-)
> > You will be able to do OGG encoding immediately with it.
> 
> The main problems I have with Sound Juicer are it's total lack of
> options and extremely slow speed. Perhaps I'm just spoiled by
> dbpoweramp in the Windows world which lets me choose what format,
> bitrate/quality, naming scheme, I want and

"grip" does have a lot more knobs to twiddle if that's what you want.

> rips CD's at an average of 23x. SJ has almost no options and rips at
> 0.1x on the same hardware.  :-\

SJ uses cdparanoia which tries very very very hard to copy the data from
the CD perfectly.  grip will let you use cdda2wav which doesn't try as
hard but can be quicker.

-rob

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