TITLE: Ripping CDs into MP3 and OGG LFS-VERSION: any (tested on 3.0) AUTHOR: Adam Ottley SYNOPSIS: This hint covers how to setup the tools for ripping and encoding CDs into MP3 or Ogg Vorbis format using the GTK-based Grip frontend. All that is needed for this hint beyond the base system is for XFree86 to be installed. Changelog: Jan 03/02: Update to new vorbis & LAME versions, add curl. HINT: The packages you'll need: curl-7.9.2.tar.bz2 (http://curl.haxx.se/) libao-0.8.2.tar.gz (http://www.vorbis.com/) libogg-1.0rc3.tar.gz libvorbis-1.0rc3.tar.gz vorbis-tools-1.0rc3.tar.gz lame-3.91.tar.gz (http://www.mp3dev.org/mp3/) cdparanoia-III-alpha9.8.tar.gz (http://www.xiph.org/paranoia/) gtk+-1.2.10.tar.gz (http://www.gtk.org/) glib-1.2.10.tar.gz (http://www.gtk.org/) grip-2.96.tgz (http://www.nostatic.org/grip/) INSTALL INSTRUCTIONS Curl 7.9.2 Curl is a very powerful multi-protocol file-transfer utility. Curl is used by ogg123 from the vorbis-tools package for http access. Build and install curl using the following commands: ./configure --prefix=/usr && make && make install ---------------------------- Ogg Vorbis 1.0rc3 Vorbis is a next-gen audio codec with much better quality than MP3 and no patent strings attached. NOTE: libvorbis may cause a compiler error if compiled with a high level of optimization. If you get a fatal compiler error, try using this patch: http://homepage.usask.ca/~aco907/vorbisrc3.patch First build libao, then libogg, then libvorbis, then vorbis-tools, each with the following commands: ./configure --prefix=/usr/local && make && make install NOTE: Some programs that link to the vorbis libraries for vorbis encoding will encode incorrectly when using rc3 instead of rc2. One such program is KDE's audiocd:/ ioslave. A patch for KDE 2.2.2 that corrects the problem is available here: http://homepage.usask.ca/~aco907/audiocd-vorbisrc3.patch To use this patch, follow these instructions in the kdebase directory: (assuming you already have KDE installed and only want to update the ioslave) patch -Np1 -i ../audiocd-vorbisrc3.patch && ./configure && cd kioslave/audiocd && make && make install ---------------------------- lame 3.91 (http://www.mp3dev.org/mp3/) After over a year and a half in beta, the LAME project finally has released a new stable package. It is recommended that if you have any intent to make MP3s that you install LAME - it is bar-none the best MP3 encoder there is. There are a couple of optional parts to the LAME package that require other packages. Particularly useful is the nasm assembler, which enables LAME to use processor-specific assembler optimizations for MMX, 3DNow and SSE, speeding up the encoding process. If you choose to install nasm or already have it installed, add --enable-nasm to the ./configure flags for LAME, and the configure script will automatically detect the optimizations that apply to your processor. Install LAME with these commands: ./configure --prefix=/usr/local && make && make install Don't worry if you see that vorbis was not found during the configure step. LAME only builds with Vorbis support using very old versions of the Vorbis libraries. ---------------------------- cdparanoia III 9.8 (http://www.xiph.org/paranoia/) cdparanoia is the best-known error correcting audio CD ripper in the Linux world. Install cdparanoia with these commands: ./configure --prefix=/usr/local && make && make install This will set up both shared and static libs plus the command-line ripper. Keep the cdparanoia source directory; you'll need it for compiling Grip. ---------------------------- glib 1.2.10 Glib is a library of C functions. Install glib using the following commands: ./configure --prefix=/usr && make && make install ---------------------------- gtk+ 1.2.10 The GIMP ToolKit is a popular C GUI toolkit. Install gtk+ using the following commands: ./configure --prefix=/usr && make && make install ---------------------------- grip 2.96 Grip is a GTK+-based ripping and encoding frontend. It supports the command-line lame and oggenc encoders, and can integrate the cdparanoia ripper, or use the command-line cdparanoia and cdda2wav rippers. The cdda2wav program is a part of the cdrtools package, and install instructions can be found in the cdwriter.txt hint. Install grip using the following commands: ln -s ../cdparanoia-III-alpha9.8 cdparanoia make PARLIBS="-lcdda_paranoia -lcdda_interface" make PREFIX=/usr/local install Command explanations: ln -s ../cdparanoia-III-alpha9.8 cdparanoia Grip looks for the cdparanoia headers in the cdparanoia subdirectory of the grip source tree. make PARLIBS="-lcdda_paranoia -lcdda_interface" Normally, grip links statically with cdparanoia, which means that if cdparanoia is upgraded grip will not benefit. Changing PARLIBS ensures grip is linked with the dynamic cdparanoia libraries. It's worth looking over the grip man page to find the aliases for title, artist, etc for constructing filenames the way you want and for how to remove underscores and capitalize the filenames. Happy ripping!