On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 12:37:40 -0400 (EDT), Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2010-03-25 10:59, Rick Pasotto wrote: >> >> The grip help talks about making sure that IDE devices use SCSI >> emulation as the 2.4 kernels didn't support dma for IDE. Has that >> changed for the 2.6 kernels? > > Yes. Completely different now. >> >> Just checked the archives for the grip-users mailing list and saw a post >> saying that grip was no longer being maintained in debian. Further >> investigation led me to cdda2wav (for which grip is evidently a front >> end). Looks like I can use that directly from the command line without >> any problem so that will be what I will do. > > For simply ripping CDs, I've always had great success using abcde. > No frills, simple rip+transcode from WAV -> MP3/OGG/FLAC.
And for simply playing audio CDs, I like the cdtool package. It uses the analog play method. For it to work, the cd or dvd drive must support the "play" command, there must be an audio cable running between the cd and the sound card, and the sound card driver must support a CD column in alsamixer. (The CD column has a separate volume control and is usually not subject to the master volume control as well, since the CD control is analog and the master volume control is digital.) The advantages? Well, the CD is not "mounted" to Linux. There is no data transfer across the bus from the CD drive to memory. There is no digital data held in memory. There is no data transfer across the bus from memory to the PCM device on the sound card. The CD drive converts the digital data to an analog signal internally and sends an analog signal to the sound card's CD input. The sound card is simply functioning as an amplifier. As viewed by the the host processor, the I/O bus, and host memory, nothing is happening. It requires no computing resources, one the process is started. If you insert an audio CD, and you have a desktop environment running, such as GNOME or KDE, some audio application will probably be automatically launched. Wait for it to start, then close the window. Then type "cdplay" in a terminal window. That's it. There are other commands included in the cdtool package too, such as cdstop, cdeject, cdinfo, etc. -- .''`. Stephen Powell <zlinux...@wowway.com> : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/986797673.21614981269536809636.javamail.r...@md01.wow.synacor.com
