What's with the GNOME CD player?

[Basil Chupin]

On 05/01/2011 18:31, MR ZenWiz wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 10:04 PM, Basil Chupin<blchupin at iinet.net.au>  wrote:
>> On 05/01/2011 16:41, MR ZenWiz wrote:
> :
>>> goobox
>> Never heard of it :-) .
>>
>> But now that I looked I see that it is not supported by Canonical.
>>
> I'm not sure how or why I got this one in particular.  It seems like
> the "same" as the one that came with CentOS (for Gnome 2.16).
>
> I mainly got it because it had a nice interface for ripping CDs.  Now
> it's becoming more of a pain.
>
>> I have never, ever, has any problems with xine. vlc, yes but I now have vlc
>> under control (have to use w_scan to get the tv stations for both xine and
>> vlc and then there is no need to look back :-) ).
>>
> What do you use to rip CDs, or do you?

If you mean by "ripping" doing a backup of a CD then I have only ever 
used k3b.

I have recorded many of my vinyl records and edited them to get rid of 
noise et al using Audacity and then burnt them to CD using k3b.


>    One thing I like(d) about
> goobox is that it rips to flac format - smaller than wavs but full
> quality (which is nice if I decide I want to modify something, like
> change the volume or cut out intros or codas I want separate, or piece
> together multiple tracks that should not have been separate in the
> first place).

As I said, horses for courses, but Audacity has been very good to me :-) 
(and k9copy and k3b, and xine and vlc).

BC

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