Weird #archival thought processes:

Okay, so, there's plenty of #audioCD rippers available for Linux. (I'm using K3B for my own CD archival project.)

But, hmmmm... are there still any working #CD rippers on Windows that could rip CDs to WAV (or preferrably FLAC)?

🤦🏻‍♀️ ...Yes there is, and *for some godforsaken reason*, the answer appears to be #iTunes.
Bet you never saw that coming! Unless you're an oldbie like me and just went "ohhh shit, that tracks"

#music

My second day of ripping my #CD collection to FLAC and making sure I get all metadata right.

One of the things I *didn't* rip was a Finnish box set of 5 CDs... from 1989. It's in Discogs, but there's not a whiff of it in MusicBrainz. I may need to learn how to submit this stuff after all.

#audiocd #music #archival

You know it's been a hot minute since I've last ripped this #audiocd.

Last time I did this, the track title was just listed as [equation].

We're going full UTF-8 now, baby! Woo!

#music #AphexTwin

I decided to face head on the biggest problem when ripping my audio CDs to FLAC. The two "copy protected" CDs that I have.

I remember when I first ripped these. I needed to use some alternative multi-session-aware Linux CD ripper which specifically ignored the completely bogus 2nd session on the CD with garbage data and read the first session TOC. (The trick is that bog-ordinary redbook CD players don't care about the 2nd session, but computer CD-ROM drives and apps do.) I had forgotten the name of the program and I was like "oh shit, I'm forgetting some old nerd lore here."

...I hit "cdparanoia -B" and both of the CDs extracted just fine with no complaints.

#MusicBrainz Picard identified both of the discs just fine.

I *guess* I would have had problems if I had tried to extract this with K3B as I usually do, because it identified the disc and then the drive started going haywire. Don't always trust GUI programs!

#cd #audiocd #music #drm

Today I started the biggish job of ripping all of my #music CDs to #FLAC format.

My previous ripping style: I ripped the music to Ogg Vorbis or something as I went. No real concern for metadata accuracy and stuff.

Anyway, now, the idea is to rip the CDs to FLAC (which can then be converted to whatever I need with no compounding quality loss), making sure all files get the actual real #MusicBrainz release data (and not just "close enough" matches). I guess I should also archive the Enhanced CD content.

So far it's going great! 28 CDs down, and only 2 have had MusicBrainz problems (one missing album cover art, one seemingly entirely missing release of an album that does exist in the database). ...I get the vague feeling that the missing album art was missing last time when I was ripping this stuff. Should fix that.

Don't mind the music selection in the screenie, this was just random stuff from the shelf.

#cd #audiocd #archival

"Drums please, Fab" 🤘

#postPunk #music #audioCD

#TIL that you can rip an audio CD in #KDE just by opening it in dolphin and copying out the folder named for the format you want it in.

These are a set of virtual folders that represent the formats supported by your system to rip them into.

How cool is that?

#audiocd #ripping #music #opticaldisc #Linux #tech #deadformats