On Wednesday 14 June 2006 17:46, Charles Steinkuehler wrote:
Coolness...I was just about to start ripping my CD collection with no compression to a couple hundred Gig of free space recently created on my RAID (I decided I could really live without local mirrors of Debian for the hppa, S390, sh, and a few other arches :).
Note FLAC will likely only half the disk space used...
Is there a handy (preferrably command-line) utility to rip FLAC files
Live compression will slow stuff down, since compression is slower than CD I/O. I'd do separate ripping and compressing processes. If you do want to do compression on-the-fly, KDE's audiocd:// can do it.
and create CUE files from audio CDs?
Why would you want a CUE?
Would I need anything else to insure I could re-create the original audio CD content exactly (I don't care about extra info that might be there like lyrics, screen-savers, Sony root-kits, etc. :-) ?
If you don't care about lyrics, data, etc, why care about exact byte positioning of the audio (only thing I can see a CUE useful for)?