In part 1 of CLB: Ripping Audio CD’s, I showed how to rip the songs from your CD and save them as WAV files. In part 2 I showed how to convert those files to Ogg Vorbis audio. Today in Part 3 I’m going to show a few ways to tag those Ogg Vorbis audio files from the command line.
In the last post we used the oggenc command from the vorbis-tools package. We’re going to use another command from vorbis-tools to tag the files: vorbiscomment. Continue reading
In Part 1 of CLB: Ripping Audio CD’s, I showed how to rip the audio from a CD and save it as WAV files using cdparanoia. In today’s short tutorial I’ll show how to convert those WAV files to Ogg Vorbis audio files.
So the first thing we’ll need to do is make sure that the proper tools are installed. We’re going to use the oggenc command which is part of the vorbis-tools package. You can check your distro’s repositories for vorbis-tools. If you’re using Ubuntu, you can install it with: Continue reading
There are many GUI based CD rippers available for the Linux desktop. While many of these applications do a great job of ripping, I like to understand the underlying technology. For that reason, I decided to figure out how to rip CD’s from the command line.
The Linux tee command is a way to write the standard output to a file. Or, to quote from the man page documentation,
tee – read from standard input and write to standard output and files
This is a little different from redirecting output to a file. Continue reading
I’ve shown previously how to use the more command to view text output. Today I’ll show how to do the same thing with the less command. You can run the command simply by opening a terminal window and entering less followed by the file name. For example: Continue reading