Posted by John Karpich on 01/10/07 02:05

Has anybody has any success ripping MP3's on linux ? I'm using Suse
Linux 10.1. and I have all the multimedia updates that Novell didn't
include in the distributiom, and I cannot for the life of me figure how
to rip a MP3 from an audio CD. I have lame installed, and there are a
few ripping programs installed, but they all look like command line
driven, and I have lost my touch at the command line since MS DOS 5. I
use CDeX in windows and it works great I'm spoiled. I was looking on
switching one of my machines to Linux because The OS on it, Windows
98SE, isn't supported by most vendors anymore.

My problems are two fold ...

One, file names. Linux want to put the files into directories based on
Artist, and the, Album; the way that CDeX defaults to when you first
install it. I want

Artist - Album - Song title.mp3

In CDeX you use %1 - %2 - %4.mp3

What switches do you trow into lame to get it to do that.
I also want CBR and no Joint stereo; this makes simpler files, so they
can play any ware.

Two, probably has to do with directory permissions, I cannot rip a file
where I wand it (on my Windows fat32 partition. That is I will try to fix..

Anybody out there using Linux out there please help

Thanx in advance

Johh

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