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Re: Whipper: Accurate Audio CD Ripping

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Post by JTon »

Etheryte wrote: post #17
accrual wrote: post #3

This is pretty cool, it's like a Python and *nix version of Exact Audio Copy (EAC) for Windows. I enjoy the ritual of perfectly ripping a CD. I can spend an hour or two scanning the artwork, verifying the track names, performing the rip, losslessly compressing (I prefer FLAC), generating .cue files, checksuming everything, then sitting down to experience the best possible digital copy of a physical item I can self pr…

Always makes me sad remembering what was lost when What.CD went offline.

And Oink before it. But the torch has been passed to the next community, not all has been lost

Re: Whipper: Accurate Audio CD Ripping

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Post by exitb »

coopl wrote: post #18
sickcodebruh wrote: post #8

Discovering music in the pre-gap before track 1 was my childhood equivalent of discovering a magickal incantation. In a world before mass use of the Internet, those who knew many of these secrets were our High Priests and Priestesses. I love the ease with which modern music can spread around the world but I miss the opportunity for surprise and discovery.

Wait what? How does this work? Which CDs had music stored before the start of the first track?

Every audio CD has a list of tracks with their respective start times, so you can jump to specific songs. The first song also specifies a start time, which does not have to be zero. If it isn’t, the player will skip some of the audio, but you can still reverse back into it.

It’s funny how a CD is more like a tape with contiguous content and an index, rather than a file system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_albums_with_tracks_hid...

Re: Whipper: Accurate Audio CD Ripping

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Post by medler »

thriftwy wrote: post #16
accrual wrote: post #3

This is pretty cool, it's like a Python and *nix version of Exact Audio Copy (EAC) for Windows. I enjoy the ritual of perfectly ripping a CD. I can spend an hour or two scanning the artwork, verifying the track names, performing the rip, losslessly compressing (I prefer FLAC), generating .cue files, checksuming everything, then sitting down to experience the best possible digital copy of a physical item I can self pr…

Linux has cdparanoia for decades now, which doea all that stuff and I'm not sure what's new about Whipper.

Whipper uses cdparanoia under the hood, but it adds features like metadata fetching, gap detection, and so forth.

More details here: https://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=Whipper

Re: Whipper: Accurate Audio CD Ripping

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Post by haunter »

IndySun wrote: post #13
flatiron wrote: post #6

I remember back in the day using https://xiph.org/paranoia/ for ripping. Tons of burned cds that eventually were tossed in favor of Spotify.

This type of ripping, comparing to other rips (paranoia) for bit-for-bit error correction integrity is part of XLD for Mac et al. However, even as a full time audio person, I consider paranoia overkill, and in someways backwards - I want my rip to be my unique rip and not precisely anyone else's - though of course, it most likely is anyway. You do realise, assuming you ripped to a lossless audio format, your cd rips…

>bit-for-bit error correction integrity is part of XLD for Mac et al

AccurateRip is a pretty important feature imo. Like at least I know someone else in the world made a rip which was exactly the same as mine regardless of the optical drive we used. Overkill? Maybe but there is some kind of "safeness" to it

https://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=AccurateRip

Re: Whipper: Accurate Audio CD Ripping

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Post by lozf »

coopl wrote: post #18
sickcodebruh wrote: post #8

Discovering music in the pre-gap before track 1 was my childhood equivalent of discovering a magickal incantation. In a world before mass use of the Internet, those who knew many of these secrets were our High Priests and Priestesses. I love the ease with which modern music can spread around the world but I miss the opportunity for surprise and discovery.

Wait what? How does this work? Which CDs had music stored before the start of the first track?

"Blumenkraft" by OTT, but only on the CD, not the download from https://ottsonic.bandcamp.com

Re: Whipper: Accurate Audio CD Ripping

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Post by wyager »

haunter wrote: post #10
catseyechandra wrote: post #2

For audio geek who wants a high quality audio extraction from their CD collection

Thank you Chat GPT

I have noticed a lot of super low-effort comments like this recently. They typically don't even write as well as current-gen chatbots.

Re: Whipper: Accurate Audio CD Ripping

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Post by flatiron »

IndySun wrote: post #13
flatiron wrote: post #6

I remember back in the day using https://xiph.org/paranoia/ for ripping. Tons of burned cds that eventually were tossed in favor of Spotify.

This type of ripping, comparing to other rips (paranoia) for bit-for-bit error correction integrity is part of XLD for Mac et al. However, even as a full time audio person, I consider paranoia overkill, and in someways backwards - I want my rip to be my unique rip and not precisely anyone else's - though of course, it most likely is anyway. You do realise, assuming you ripped to a lossless audio format, your cd rips…

My audio now is usually played via AirPods. So any lossless rip is lost on me since it’s compressed anyway.

Re: Whipper: Accurate Audio CD Ripping

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Post by thrownawaysz »

>Docker

Maybe it's just me but when I see Docker with a project like this I already zone out. This is still just based on cdparanoia/cdrdao [0]. I wish people would just push single portable binaries instead of starting the whole process with Docker (especially when the source code is alreaedy available)

0, https://github.com/whipper-team/whipper/blob/develop/whipper...

0, https://github.com/whipper-team/whipper/blob/develop/whipper...

Re: Whipper: Accurate Audio CD Ripping

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Post by auxym »

Etheryte wrote: post #17
accrual wrote: post #3

This is pretty cool, it's like a Python and *nix version of Exact Audio Copy (EAC) for Windows. I enjoy the ritual of perfectly ripping a CD. I can spend an hour or two scanning the artwork, verifying the track names, performing the rip, losslessly compressing (I prefer FLAC), generating .cue files, checksuming everything, then sitting down to experience the best possible digital copy of a physical item I can self pr…

Always makes me sad remembering what was lost when What.CD went offline.

And oink, waffles, Pedro's. It was the golden age of piracy.
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