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Episode: 3839
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Title: HPR3839: Rip a CD in the terminal
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr3839/hpr3839.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-25 06:20:30
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This is Hacker Public Radio Episode 3839 for Thursday the 20th of April 2023.
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Today's show is entitled Rip a CD in the Terminal.
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It is part of the series Lightweight Apps.
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It is hosted by Archer 72 and is about 5 minutes long.
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It carries a clean flag.
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The summary is Archer 72 Ripsed CDs in the Terminal and avoids the whims of the media
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companies.
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Hello, this is Archer 72.
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Welcome to Hacker Public Radio.
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In this episode, since I was looking through my old CDs, I decided to try a command line
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CD Ripper called A-B-C-D-E.
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This is an acronym for a better CD encoder.
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And they're wiki.
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It says Grab an entire CD and compress it to AgVorbus, MP3, FLAC, AAC, OGG, Speaks, and
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or MPP, Slash, MP+, MusePack format.
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By A-B-C-D-E, ordinarily the process of grabbing the data off a CD and encoding it, then tagging
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or commenting it is very involved.
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A-B-C-D-E is designed to automate this.
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With one command, it will do a CDDB or Music Brain's query over the internet to look
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up your CD or use a locally stored CDDB entry or read CD text from your CD as a fallback
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for track information.
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This is a good place to mention that free DB is deprecated now.
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So the URL for the CDDB lookup is now at www.genewdb.org.
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Now leave the link in the show notes.
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Then it grabs an audio track or all the audio CD tracks from your CD.
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Normalize the volume of individual file or album as a single unit.
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Compress to AgVorbus, MP3, FLAC, OGG, Slash, Speaks, MPP, Slash, MP+, M4A and or Opus
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Format, all in one CD read, comment or ID3 tag given intelligible file name, calculate
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replay gain values for the individual file or the album as a single unit, delete the
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intermediate wave or save it for later use, repeat until finished.
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Alternatively, ABCDE can also grab a CD and turn it into a single flack file with an
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embedded QC which can be used later on as a source for other formats and will be treated
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as if it was the original CD and away ABCDE can take a compressed backup of your CD collection.
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Did I mention this was all on the command line?
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It was ideal because I wanted to use it on the Raspberry Pi or other HLS type setups.
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While I was looking at information on this program, I came across a forum on Ask Ubuntu
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and it's posted from a former developer of this program and it preserved the configuration
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file there that will rip to 11 different audio formats at the same time and there is
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follows.
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AugVorbus, MP3, Flack, MusePack, AAC, Opus, WavePack, Monkeys Audio, True Audio, and
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MP2.
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I didn't try to get all the formats working as I was only interested in AugVorbus, MP3,
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Flack and Opus.
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Also I commented out the ones that I didn't use and the different formats are put into
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corresponding sub-directories.
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The author says to keep in mind that this comp file can also be used for a single audio
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codec grip and code by using something like the following.
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ABCDE, Space, Dash, O, Space, MP3.
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So I decided to use this and make an alias to something like ripscde.mp3 and now this
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is kind of an outdated way to do things and the project is getting longer than the tooth
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also.
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The last commit was on the GitHub page was February 14th, 2021.
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And unlike the online media companies that decide what can be or not be in the library,
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you own what you rip and you have it for good.
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And there's one last thing, if this program stops working and you don't want to use the
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graphical ones, there's always an ffmp command that dumps the contents of the entire CD to
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a Flack file.
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Thank you for listening.
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Feel free to leave a comment if you want or also feel free to record a show of your
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own.
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Bye.
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You have been listening to Hacker Public Radio at Hacker Public Radio.org.
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easy it really is.
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rsync.net.
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On this otherwise status, today's show is released under Creative Commons, Attribution 4.0
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International License.
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