What formats would you like to see in a CD ripper?

[Mig21]

Hello

I'm the author of Asunder (http://littlesvr.ca/asunder/). It's a CD ripper for linux only, but I figured I'd ask here because the question is not OS-specific.

Right now it rips to wav, mp3, ogg, and flac. I would like to add support for a new format or two in the next version. So far I got 2 suggestions: wavpack (http://www.wavpack.com/) and AAC (using FAAC (http://www.audiocoding.com/faac.html)).

Do you like either of these formats, do you see a point in having them in a generic CD ripper? Or do you know of another format you would like to see CD rippers work with?

Thanks in advance.

[ArdenDag]

Well, to be honest I used to be a huge audiophile, making sure my cd collection was well encoded, but nowadays I'm lazy (as I've seen many people are). I'll give you an idea, maybe have a generic script tool that would allow any software to convert internally, since CD audio would extract first to PCM/Wave, then be converted to another format, why not allow anyone with a command line driven encoder to allow it to run, setting parameters right in the program.

This way you can tell it to rip, then run a specific comand line after each rip. Rip-and-run, while doing other things.

Just an idea
Arden

[Hard Core Rikki]

The current format list seems nice enough as it is, not that anyone would really dare suggest WMA as an output :p
AAC and Monkey Audio (http://www.monkeysaudio.com/) (lossless) wouldnt be bad ;)

Having MusicBrainz (http://musicbrainz.org/)supported would be a significant plus. They have an API available (freedb wins over cddb anytime ;) )

[Mig21]

Thanks for the ideas.

I'm guessing the major use for AAC files is ipods? Though I wonder why mp3 won't work just as well..

How about MonkeyAudio? What do people use that for?

[daphy]

Hi,

Today APE is IMHO the most effective lossless encoder. Therefore it is supported natively by Exact Audio Copy (obviously the windows twin of your project). I know many people who started to get rid of their CDs by first compress them to CUE/APE, parking the music on their media-pc in the living room and banning the CDs in the cellar.
(My wife also would be glad to get rid of my ~2500 CDs, too :p )

Since linux (specially UBUNTU) is a real alternative this conversations should also be possible by this OS. In the moment, there is no real good solution, because APE is not the linux programer's choice, I don't know why, but even replaying APEs is difficult because of the lack of natively supporting apps :(
So if you ripper would support APE, too this would be great!!!

Thank you

[Mig21]

I added wavpack support in 1.5

I also wanted to add AAC and APE functinality, but those formats seem to be very poorly supported in Linux, so I figured it won't help anyone.

Cheers

[linyx]

AAC (using FAAC)
This thread may be of interest to you.
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=136307

[daphy]

I also wanted to add AAC and APE functinality, but those formats seem to be very poorly supported in Linux, so I figured it won't help anyone.

This still sounds fine to me :rolleyes:


:thanks:

CYA
daphy

[stax76]

So far all my music is good old MP3.