Linux Rip Audio CD

by on June 17, 2010 · 4 comments

  1. #!/bin/bash
  2. # A simple shell script to rip audio cd and create mp3 using lame 
  3. # and cdparanoia utilities.
  4. # ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  5. # Written by Vivek Gite <http://www.cyberciti.biz/>
  6. # (c) 2006 nixCraft under GNU GPL v2.0+
  7. # ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  8. read -p "Starting in 5 seconds ( to abort press CTRL + C ) " -t 5
  9. cdparanoia -B
  10. for i in *.wav
  11. do
  12. 	lame --vbr-new -b 360 "$i" "${i%%.cdda.wav}.mp3"
  13. 	rm -f "$i"
  14. done

How Do I Use This Script?

Download the script. Put audio cd into drive. Create directory to store mp3s, enter:
mkdir music
cd music
mkdir "Album name"
cd !!:1
/path/to/ripcd.sh
See HowTo: Linux Rip and Encode Audio CDs



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  • Peter Gaal

    petike-nb# abcde -a cddb,read,encode,tag,move,playlist,clean -d /dev/cdrom -o mp3 -V -x

  • Walter

    The script should read

    #!/bin/bash
# A simple shell script to rip an audio CD and create MP3s using lame
# and cdparanoia.
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Written by Vivek Gite  and WS
# (c) 2011 nixCraft under GNU GPL v2.0+
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
read -p "Starting in 5 seconds (to abort press CTRL + C)" -t 5
rc=0
i=
if ! cdparanoia -B; then
	echo "cdparanoia ended with error, bailing out" 1>&2
	exit 1
fi
for i in *.wav; do
	if lame --vbr-new -q 0 "$i" "${i%%.cdda.wav}.mp3"; then
		rm -f "$i"
	else
		echo "Could not encode $i" 1>&2
		((rc++))
	fi
done
exit $rc

    I corrected spelling and added error checking. The script will now abort on a ripping error and won’t delete Wave files which have not been successfully encoded.
    If any error occurs, the exit code is not 0.
    Furthermore, “–vbr-new” and “-b 360″ are contradictory options, the first telling lame to use variable bit rate and the second telling lame to use constant bit rate for encoding. I replaced the second with “-q 0″ to achieve the best possible result.
    The usage example could be simplified with

    mkdir -p "music/Album name"
cd $?
/path/to/ripcd.sh

  •  Walter
    Oops, I used a wrong variable for the usage example ^^
    mkdir -p "music/Album name"
cd !$
/path/to/ripcd.sh
  •  bas
    Hi,
     thanks!
     Very cool!
     But what about files name?
     Why i have to change handy?
    
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