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I've tried 'cd2mp3' (from Ports), which uses dagrab and bladeenc, but
the result sounds like an old gramophone with a loose belt. Further
testing shows that 'dagrab' does a good job, but when 'bladeenc'
converts the .wav file to .mp3, the result is bad. Maybe I'm not giving
it the right parameters?

How fast a machine is needed for this job? I have a Pentium II 350 MHz,
is that good enough?

Is there a faq or other documentation on this subject somewhere?
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Torfinn Ingolfsen
Norway

Quote:> I've tried 'cd2mp3' (from Ports), which uses dagrab and bladeenc, but
> the result sounds like an old gramophone with a loose belt. Further
> testing shows that 'dagrab' does a good job, but when 'bladeenc'
> converts the .wav file to .mp3, the result is bad. Maybe I'm not giving
> it the right parameters?

$bladeenc -br 256 filename.wav filename.mp3

or just:

$bladeenc -256 filename.wav filename.mp3

Been a while since I last used it, so I might have the order of arguments
wrong.

Quote:> How fast a machine is needed for this job? I have a Pentium II 350 MHz,
> is that good enough?

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Quote:>> I've tried 'cd2mp3' (from Ports), which uses dagrab and bladeenc, but
>> the result sounds like an old gramophone with a loose belt. Further
>> testing shows that 'dagrab' does a good job, but when 'bladeenc'
>> converts the .wav file to .mp3, the result is bad. Maybe I'm not giving
>> it the right parameters?
> Bladeenc, at least the version Ilast used under 4.1-Release, does a good
> job at 256 kbit.  Use the -br switch to set it (or just a dash and the
> kbit), e.g.
> $bladeenc -br 256 filename.wav filename.mp3
> or just:
> $bladeenc -256 filename.wav filename.mp3
> Been a while since I last used it, so I might have the order of arguments
> wrong.
>> How fast a machine is needed for this job? I have a Pentium II 350 MHz,
>> is that good enough?
> My P166MMX (24MB ram) with 48X CDROM can rip and encode a full CD in about
> 2 hours if I remember right.  YMMV.

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Michel Talon

it's in the ports (of course)

Quote:> I've tried 'cd2mp3' (from Ports), which uses dagrab and bladeenc, but
> the result sounds like an old gramophone with a loose belt. Further
> testing shows that 'dagrab' does a good job, but when 'bladeenc'
> converts the .wav file to .mp3, the result is bad. Maybe I'm not giving
> it the right parameters?
> How fast a machine is needed for this job? I have a Pentium II 350 MHz,
> is that good enough?
> Is there a faq or other documentation on this subject somewhere?
> --
> Torfinn Ingolfsen
> Norway

Thanks for all suggestions!
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Torfinn Ingolfsen,
Norway

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Quote:> What is the best tool(s) for creating MP3's from my CD's under FreeBSD
> 4.2-Release?

    The very best free mp3 encoder (in terms of quality) bar none is LAME,
available in /usr/ports/audio/lame/.  (Gogo is faster than LAME because it
forked LAME to rewrite in assembly.)  The very informative LAME homepage is
at http://www.mp3dev.org/mp3/, mirrored at http://lame.sourceforge.net.
    I would recommend cdparanoia, made by the Ogg Vorbis people, as a
ripper, but it has not yet been ported to FreeBSD (on the todo list).  I
don't have enough experience with other rippers to comment, but the paranoia
links page (http://www.xiph.org/paranoia/links.html) will point you in the
right direction.

Scott Benolkin

Quote:>What is the best tool(s) for creating MP3's from my CD's under FreeBSD
>4.2-Release?

>I've tried 'cd2mp3' (from Ports), which uses dagrab and bladeenc, but
>the result sounds like an old gramophone with a loose belt. Further
>testing shows that 'dagrab' does a good job, but when 'bladeenc'
>converts the .wav file to .mp3, the result is bad. Maybe I'm not giving
>it the right parameters?

You'll have to install cdd as a pre-compiled package.  The port is
currently marked as broken, and won't compile, due to changes in the SCSI
subsystem.  I'm going to try my hand at fixing up the code for an
ATAPI-only version, and if successful, will submit it to the ports
collection.

Quote:>How fast a machine is needed for this job? I have a Pentium II 350 MHz,
>is that good enough?

The basic mechanism is:

Use cdd to rip the raw audio tracks, then sox to convert the raw audio
files to wave files, then gogo to encode to MP3.  You can shorten this
sequence by piping the output of cdd into sox, if you like.

Works great, and is about the fastest and most reliable combination of
tools you're likely to find.  Cdd, in particular, is much more meticulous
about ensuring a good rip than any other ATAPI ripper I've tried.

I've written a script to automate the whole process, if you're interested.  
Just let me know and I'll e-mail it to you.
--
Conrad Sabatier

As for gogo, I can't seem to get it downloaded (from the port, anyway).
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Torfinn Ingolfsen,
Norway

This was the main reason I ended up writing my own script, in fact.  :-)
--
Conrad Sabatier

Quote:> Ah, a question I can answer!
>     The very best free mp3 encoder (in terms of quality) bar none is LAME,

The original Fraunhofer beast, still flying around in the net, in a linux
version that works ok.

H.