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| Creating MP3 files from a CD: - Using the GUI tool Grip - |
Grip is available in RPM form with the current Fedora Core and Red Hat distributions.
On older Red Hat 7 releases, it was available on the Red Hat Powertools CD
The source is available from the
Grip home page.
This GUI is a (beautiful) front-end to Linux command line tools.
It utilizes cdparanoia (cdparanoia is actually built into Grip or you can use
the external cdparanoia command)
or cdda2wav (my choice) for CD "ripping" and lame (best choice),
bladeenc, mp3encode, gogo, xingmp3enc or l3enc to encode the MP3 file.
Set the appropriate options under the "Config" tab.
Grip also has a built-in CD player (GCD) and connects to
CDDB (freedb.freedb.org) to obtain track titles where available.
Usage:
- Install Grip RPM.
- Install MP3 encoder: Download lame source and compile as detailed below. (or bladeenc)
- Start Grip: /usr/bin/grip
- Configure Grip:
- Select "Config" + "MP3" (or "Encode") + "Encoder" tabs.
- Set the "Encoder" pull down menu to "lame" or "bladeenc"
- Set the MP3 encoder: /opt/bin/lame or /opt/bin/bladeenc
(Note: Fedora Core comes with lame and Grip is pre-configured.)
- Default file format: ~/mp3/%a/%d/%n.mp3
This will put the ripped and encoded MP3 files into the
directory/file: $HOME/mp3/Artist-name/Disc-title/Track-name.mp3
- Select tracks to convert. Select the "Tracks" tab and select the
tracks with the middle mouse button (three button mouse or two at once
for a two button mouse).
- Select the "Rip" tab + "Rip+Encde" button to begin.
Note: Grip will also generate a playlist (.m3u file) of the tracks converted
and put it in your $HOME/mp3/ directory.
| Configure |
Select Tracks |
Rip |
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| Creating MP3 files from a CD: - Using the command line - |
It is easiest to use the GUI tool Grip as described above.
You may choose to use the command line interface as detailed here:
Dump tracks on an audio CD to wav files on your hard drive:
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cdda2wav -D 0,4,0 -B /tmp/prefix-of-music-file
The files will be written out as /tmp/prefix-of-music-file_01.inf /tmp/prefix-of-music-file_01.wav /tmp/prefix-of-music-file_02.inf ...
You may have to be root. See YoLinux managing groups tutorial to configure system for regular users with CD-ROM access.
Encode MP3: Convert WAV to MP3
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Use one of the following encoders:
- Lame:
lame prefix-of-music-file_01.wav song.mp3 - Fixed 128kbs stereo encoding
lame -h prefix-of-music-file_01.wav song.mp3 - High quality
lame -f prefix-of-music-file_01.wav song.mp3 - Fast and low quality
lame -b 112 prefix-of-music-file_01.wav song.mp3 - Encode at a bit rate of 112 kbs
Type lame --help or see file "USAGE" to get list of options.
Use mlame script to convert multiple wav files.
./mlame -r -o "-v -V 0 -b 112" a*.wav
mlame Options:
- -h: help text
- -r: remove files after encoding
- -o: "<lame options$gt;" overrides script default options "-h -d -m j -b 128"
OR
- Bladeenc:
bladeenc prefix-of-music-file_01.wav song.mp3
Note: The size of the MP3 file will be approximately 10% the size of the wav file.
I was e-mailed the following tip: "Found that the BladeEnc MP3 encoder works
better (for my ears) encoding NewAge/Classical/etc and that lame is better for
harder music genres." Judge for yourself.
One may notice that the MP3 encoders are often missing from
Linux distributions.
The reason is that since 1998, the German research lab that holds the
MP3
patent, Fraunhofer, began imposing a fee of $15,000.00 plus $5.00 per
encoder and 50 cents per player sold or distributed. [Ref. Wired
magazine Sept. 2001, pg 74 article by Pete Rojas] This may lead to the
eventual rise of Ogg Vorbis as a standard format although
the recording industry rejects it due to the lack of anti-piracy
mechanisms.
| Building Lame: (MP3 encoder) |
The "lame" command line MP3 encoder is used in the conversion of wav files
(and other formats) to the MP3 file format.
The "lame" encoder RPMs currently ships with the Fedora Core.
If you wish to build the latest:
- The Lame home page: http://www.mp3dev.org/mp3/
- Download from SourceForge
- tar -xzf lame3.70.tar.gz (Don't get their beta versions. I tried and it didn't even compile!!)
- cd lame-3.70
- make (Beta versions used ./configure but version 3.70 just had a make file)
- mv lame /opt/bin
- mv mlame /opt/bin (Script to handle multiple files)
- mv auenc /opt/bin (Script to handle multiple files)
- mv doc/man/lame.1 /opt/man/man1
- mv doc/html /usr/doc/lame3.70 (Red Hat 6.x doc location)
or
mv doc/html /usr/share/doc/lame3.70 (Red Hat 7.x doc location)
| Building BladeEnc: (MP3 encoder) |
The "bladeenc" command line MP3 encoder is used in the conversion of wav files
to the MP3 file format.
- Download source from the BladeEnc home page: http://bladeenc.mp3.no/
- Click on "Sourcecode" (left frame)
- tar -xzf bladeenc-0.9x.x-src-stable.tar.gz
- cd bladeenc-0.9x.x
- ./configure --prefix=/opt
- make
- make install
Xmms Player:
Typing the letter 'l' will open a dialog box which will allow you to select
a new file.
Xmms Home Page
Xmms plug-ins -
additional List of XMMS plug-ins.
FreeAmp Player:
Players:
- MP3: Xaudio, xmms, mp3blaster review
- MP3 Player review
- XMMS.org - 4Front Multimedia
- MPG123 - Console MP3 player
- MP3 Tools lists
- MusicMatch.com: Jukebox 7.0
- MP3 player, encoder (Fraunhofer), CD ripper, CD burner, line-in
encoder, CDDB integration, Jukebox MP3 player/manager,... Commercial
software for purchase. Reportedly handles streaming MP3 but it did not
work for me. Menu tip: left click on menu bar then right click and hold
to select item. Can create MP3's at 44kHz/128kbps to 160 bps. Relies on
Wine libraries. (installed and configured as part of install)
MPEG URL handler/launcher for Netscape did not work for me.
Encoders:
Other Links:
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