Weekend project: figure out the best way to rip/encode the rest of my CD collection. At this point, I’m thinking that instead of using MAREO w/ EAC (encoding on my WinXP Athlon XP 1800) I should take advantage of my mostly idle (current uptime load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00)Xeon 2.4GHz processor and try to find a good way to encode w/ that. I’ll be doing FLAC, hopefully with a way of retaining in/out points, and then a compact lossy format for the iPod and streaming.
- Rip IMG (WAV+CUE) w/ EAC on PC
- Find/write script to FLAC + lossy encode (~128KBps VBR LAME, or AAC?) — OGG won’t play on the iPod… Will iPod play FAAC LC/M4As? The QT AAC implementation seems to deliver the best quality, but will it run on Linux?
- Lame with Cuesheet Input – a patch that allows MP3 encoding (+ID3 tags) directly from an EAC CUE sheet. Cool. Easier than using cuetools?
- Mausau’s audio plugins for Nero Burning ROM – need to burn FLAC? (don’t know if this can burn FLAC from CUE files though)
- [Flac-users] CD -> FLAC -> CD – shell scrip using cdrdao
- Lossless CD archival / HD playback – no great solutions…
- Cue Creator – perl script that rips w/ cdparanoia, creates CUE files
- Samba File Extension Mapping VFS Module – including decode_flac script, allows automatic decode of flac files if you’re playing say in iTunes over the network (but no metadata?) some comments @ Elsewhere.org
- Lame – perl scripts including Split_wav which will transform CUE files into separate wav files
- Audio::FLAC