how trivially can i rip my CD collection to FLAC format?

[Johnny Rosenberg]

Den 2010-09-08 02:16:53 skrev Andrew Farris <flyindragon1 at aol.com>:

> On Mon, 2010-09-06 at 15:55 +0200, Gurus Knugum wrote:
>> Den 2010-09-06 13:18:20 skrev James Bensley <jwbensley at gmail.com>:
>>
>> > Sound Juicer comes with Ubuntu and will rip CDs strait to FLAC, its
>> > very easy to use and will look up artist/album/track names on
>> > line...So its ticks the basic boxes of what you need...
> [snip]
>>
>> I also use Sound Juicer all the time to rip to FLAC. Click If you want  
>> to
>> add more tags, I would recommend EasyTag for that.

I don't have a clue why the word ”Click” is there. Must have been  
something that I wrote earlier and forgot to delete. Sorry if this  
confused someone.
>
> I'll second the use of Sound Juicer for ripping music... I just recently
> backed up my whole CD collection to a new harddrive, just as the OP is
> planning, and I used Sound Juicer to do it (collection of ±500 CDs).

What do you mean by ±500? How can you have -500 CDs? I suppose you mean  
≈500 CDs, but maybe I just don't understand what you were trying to say…

> Sound Juicer nicely handled filling in all the essential info for the
> music tracks (Artist, Album, Track name/number) as well as some optional
> ones (genre, year, etc...) and filing them away in my chosen music
> folder.

Yes, but not Composer and Original artist, which could be interesting for  
some people, I guess. Or maybe it's only me as usual.

>
> I will say right now that while it worked flawlessly for the most part,
> there were a few CDs that I had trouble with during the process. There
> were a few that were not in the MusicBrainz database (the one Sound
> Juicer uses to auto-fill all the tags ) which I added myself where
> possible, and there were a few times where sound juicer simply wouldn't
> detect the CD's presence (though it would mount just fine). For these
> times, I just ejected the CD, and reinserted, and it would usually
> work.
>
> Also, when ripping the CDs, I found it immensely useful that Sound
> Juicer can be set up to encode with custom settings (such as the number
> of audio channels the encoded track should have). Because of this, and
> because I have a 5.1 surround sound system on my PC, I encoded all my
> FLAC files for 6-channel audio by copying and modifying the default FLAC
> encoder line to support multiple channels. to do this from Sound Juicer:
> Edit > Preferences | Format > Edit Profiles
>         select CD Quality, Lossless and hit 'Edit'
>         under GStreamer pipeline, change channels=2 to channels=6 (or
>         whatever pleases you most)
>         hit close
> You can also make your own custom format similarly.

Yes, but on a CD that is recorded with 2 channels, how can it convert that  
to 6 chennels? The information is nowhere on the CD so where does it get  
it? Is it some kind of psycho-acoustic effect of some kind? Sounds to me  
that it's just a waste of space, but please try to convince me, if you  
like. Or maybe I misunderstood there; English is not my native language,  
sorry.



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Kind regards

Johnny Rosenberg