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Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated. I got VLC, but that might not be the app I need. I thought you might have some words of wisdom for me with regards to a single 'app' to rip/store/play music. MarvKirsch wrote: I'm going back to the music issue. The screenshot below shows how you move tracks from your audio CD, iPod or other device to your collection, using the context (right-click) menu. Now you should see it in your collection. If the ripped music does not appear in your Media Sources pane it's best to quit Amarok from the Amarok top-level menu, or Ctrl + Q, and then restart it. Once the rip is complete, the message in the message bar disappears and the music appears in the content browser of your Local Collection. If you copy music from an audio CD to your Local Collection, the message bar at the bottom of the Amarok window will indicate that it is busy copying. Just pop in a CD, and right-click on the banner of the CD device in the Content Browser (on the left side) to play, or copy to your collection, which will rip and tag your tracks (see image below). If you don't have any music files on your computer, or want to add some music to them, it's easy to rip them (copy the tracks from your CDs to your collection). Of course, you can 'rip' music from your CD's using any of the CD/DVD 'burning' programs that are included, or available, in Linux and Linux Mint, like the awesome 'K3b' disk burning program.Īmarok - Ripping a CD into the collection Obviously, '.mp3' is the most compatible and common music file format. Then, it starts 'ripping' your music CD to your Music folder, or wherever you selected. Then, put your CD in your CD drive, it will show up as 'audio CD' on the upper left side, right click that, select 'copy to collection', click where you want the music files to be created, like 'local collection' or another connected device, then pick the music file format that you want to import the music as like '.mp3', '.Flac', '.Wav', '.ogg', and click 'ok'. To 'rip' music from a cd, you basically, start Amarok, then tell Amarok where your music is stored: go into 'settings', 'configure Amarok', click 'local collection', pick the folder, like 'Music' (on Linux it is probably under your /home/user/Music' folder), and hit ok. Sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports

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There are other good music programs for Linux as well, but I use Amarok.Īmarok might already be installed in your Linux Mint System, or it may be available in your system menu's Software Manager or Synaptic Packager Manager (spm), or you can install Amarok using the PPA method below from your console terminal prompt by typing in the commands one by one, or by using the 'cut & paste' method for each line: I have included a quote from Amarok on 'Ripping' music from a CD to your system, or devices, below. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.Īmarok is a wonderful Linux music program that can also 'rip' music from CD, store music, and play music to and from your system's music folder (collection), or connected devices, in multiple formats. Since you were very helpful with my browser, I thought you might have some words of wisdom for me with regards to a single 'app' to rip/store/play music. MarvKirsch wrote:Now that Chrome is a bit better, I'm going back to the music issue. When I want the songs again for my digital player, it's a matter of seconds to point the frontend to the right database (after I'm done with hunting for the CD around the home, that is).īut yes, to go my way you've got to love the command line and enjoy a bit of scripting.

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That way, I do the work once, I just keep the tiny database file, and I'm free to delete the songs to make room. The way I have always done all my ripping is through a little custom frontend to the toolchain, with bash as a glue language and a text file with the track names to read from. The results: no way to fine tune itunes (no pun intended.

The good ol' Unix philosophy goes: 'do one thing and do it well', but the Apple guys have really betrayed it for 'ease of use'. For one thing, itunes' encoder is really lame compared to lame (no pun intended) or indeed to vorbis.

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I'm a former Mac user and while I liked itunes for playback, I found it terrible for ripping CDs and doing encoding work. Warning: biased opinion, disregard as needed. MarvKirsch wrote:On my Mac, there's iTunes.