TIL dolphin (the file manager of the KDE-Desktop) makes ripping CDs very easy lol. No other program or terminal needed.
I bought some daft-punk cds recently and stuffed the first one (Random Access Memories) into my drive and mounted it in KDE and found what you can see in the screenshot.
I was very confused. Did they ship pre-encoded stuff on that disk? Tried playing a file from the FLAC or MP3 folders. Player stalls "buffering..." it says.
I stuffed the same CD under windows. Only CDA-Files on that CD (as expected). plays with no issue in Windows media player.
Opened the disk in Thunar. Only wav-files. Play fine.
Using some internet search-engine... I came across the german Ubuntu-wiki (
https://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/CDs_rippen/#Konqueror-Dolphin). Which stated (english translation below):
" In Dolphin und im Konqueror besteht die Möglichkeit, die Inhalte von Audio-CDs als virtuelle Ordner anzeigen zu lassen. Hierfür gibt man folgendes in die Adresszeile ein:
audiocd:/
Derartige Ordner können wie normale Ordner einfach kopiert werden, wobei im Hintergrund der Rip- und Codierungsvorgang automatisch stattfindet. Beim Rippen wird cdparanoia und zum Codieren lame (MP3) bzw. oggenc (Ogg-Vorbis) verwendet. Die gewünschte Qualitätsstufe kann unter "Systemeinstellungen → Multimedia → Audio-CDs" angepasst werden."
English:
"In dolphin and konqueror you have the possibility to view the contents of a CD as virtual folders. To use this feature type the following into the adress bar:
audiocd:/
You can copy these folder as any other normal folder. The ripping and encoding process will happen automatically in the background. During the rip cdparanoia is used and for encoding either lame (MP3) or ogenc (Ogg-Vorbi) is used. You can configure the quality settings in [KDE] System Settings -> Mulitmedia -> Audio CDs"
nifty feature tbh. For mp3s it also automatically does the Id3-tags for you. (other than the album-art)
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