[Techtalk] Clueless about Ripping & Encoding Audio
Beth Johnson
linux.chick at verizon.net
Thu Oct 10 16:23:14 EST 2002
On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 19:51, Mick Timony wrote:
> Perhaps lame or bladeenc is not in your path?
Nope, they're there. That was what I checked when I originally got
errors about invalid mp3 encoders.
> Here's the edited highlights of my
> ".grip" config file (I don't want to put the whole thing in cause it's
> kinda long if you want a copy e-mail me):
<Snip>
Could you go ahead and send me your whole config? I pasted in the mp3
encoding bits from yours and am still getting the same problem. It
looks like it's tagging tracks but not actually doing anything with the
music. I don't get a drive light on the cdrom while it's supposedly
ripping (for the 10 seconds the operation takes). If I turn around to
my server and use MusicMatch, the operation takes as long to encode as
it does to play, and I do get a drive light flashing away.
I can play the cd via grip.
> >which works but it's glacially slow in Linux (read: encodes as quickly
> >as it plays)).
>
> Sound about right. :) The encoding from wav to mp3 is very CPU
> intensive. To create mp3's the tracks on you CD are first converted to
> WAV files then to mp3.
Does the wav to mp3 conversion not happen in Windoze? MMJB encodes very
quickly on that platform, like less than 5 minutes for a disk.
And, yes, I'm looking into ogg vorbis, but I'd have to get things set up
for our Mac clients to listen with, so that's just a little way down the
road.
And to Alvin, thank you for your very detailed post. I'm afraid,
however, that it's a bit over my head at this point. I'm sure once I'm
over the hill with this problem that your post will make much more sense
to me!
regards,
Beth
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