[colug-432] CD ripper replacement for gRip? - Asunder, RipperX, Ripoff

[Rob Funk]

On Sunday, June 10, 2012 11:44:00 PM Peter King wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 01:55:10PM -0400, Rob Funk wrote:
> > That said, there are aspects of it that are rather out of date, so I've
> > (mostly) ended up replacing it with Audex, which (last I checked) is in
> > the Kubuntu "universe" archive.
> 
> Don't fear the command line. Use abcde, which is just a front-end to the
> real tools (that K3B and others use): cdparanoia, cddb, (too)lame, and so
> on. And you can always use the subordinate tools directly. That way you
> have all the configurability you might ever want, and as much as any tool
> built on top of them can provide.

Yeah, that's sorta the way I started long long ago, though I never actually 
used abcde. (I think the scripts I used then predated it.)  Grip added multi-
process encoding, but processors are now so much faster than CD drives that it 
doesn't really help anymore.

The cool thing about Audex, which doesn't work in text mode, is that it 
handles cover art nicely. The bad thing is that the feature doesn't always 
work in the version I have (which is getting rather old now).