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You Don't Really Own the Digital Movies You Buy (2021) | Oct 2023

Buying bluray and dvd movies and CDs on ebay or craigslist (or better yet: finding in little free libraries while walking) and ripping them to disk and then serving locally (via jellyfin and mopidy) and selectively copying onto phone/table SD cards (e.g. before traveling) has gone pretty well for me. It's pretty cheap, has the convenience of digital media, feels like I have full control, and is legal. I often bring HDMI cords with me on vacation to hook up laptop to TV for showing.

Really been loving whipper for CD encoding https://github.com/whipper-team/whipper

I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music | Apr 2023

I have a music library on my home server that I use mopidy to play via the iris plugin integrated into my home assistant UI. It plays over Snapcast which streams over the network to multiple devices in the home with independent volume control. I can fire up the Snapcast client in my phone to get it going there as well, which does work over vpn if I'm away, though I generally just fire up the files from my phones SD card for out-of-home listening. I recently started using whipper on Linux to extract audio from craigslist cds.

https://mopidy.com/

https://mopidy.com/ext/iris/

https://github.com/badaix/snapcast

https://github.com/whipper-team/whipper

Ask HN: How does one make a bit-perfect CD rip in 2022? | Dec 2022

I've gone down this rabbit hole for audio CDs a few months ago.

In addition to Exact Audio Copy (Windows only, proprietary) I was able to find some open source tools that should (haven't compared to EAC directly yet) achieve the same result.

One of the still maintained tools is [whipper](https://github.com/whipper-team/whipper). I've used it to successfully rip a few CDs, though in my case that wasn't really a challenge due to the good condition the CDs were in.

Audio CD ripping – optical drive accuracy listing | Nov 2022

If you care about accurate rips on Linux, the best tool to use is whipper: https://github.com/whipper-team/whipper. It makes use of the AccurateRip database, which is used to calculate the statistics. I don't know about any other native Linux application that makes use of it. Other tools like cdparanoia, and all the other wrappers around it, just attempt to read it multiple times and still get the wrong result, as the post shows.

How the FLAC format compresses audio without loss of quality | Sep 2022

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In addition to what others have said (FLAC is lossless but compressed, and about 50% smaller than WAV), FLAC (plus a few other tiny files) is also the de facto format for archiving audio CDs (it can do other quality than CD quality, but it's mostly used to backup CDs).

When you rip one of your CD, a good ripper shall verify that your rip is 100% bit perfect (by verifying that the hash of your rip matches an online database of hashes of CDs ripped by other people). These rippers typically do rip to FLAC.

FWIW on Linux I've had good luck with "whipper" in the past (haven't ripped any CD that recently) [1]

[1] https://github.com/whipper-team/whipper

24/192 Music Downloads and why they make no sense (2012) | Mar 2019

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Heh, nice :-) Yeah, cmus is incredibly convenient for rapid playlist management once you learn the shortcuts, (there's an excellent quick tutorial $ man cmus-tutorial).

I mostly use 7digital & HDTracks to acquire FLACs these days, but when I rip from CDs, I use https://github.com/whipper-team/whipper to do the job.

FLACs from 7d/HDTracks are already named & tagged properly so I only deal with it occasionally and when I do, https://picard.musicbrainz.org works well for acquiring tags & artwork.

When I need to rename/tag manually, https://kid3.sourceforge.io has been working nicely.

Also I haven't used it myself, but there's a lot of positive chatter around https://github.com/beetbox/beets for tagging etc. I just prefer not to have my files touched in such an automated way :-)

I rarely actually convert from FLACs these days, since I have set up Airsonic, (https://github.com/airsonic/airsonic), on my home server. I now have access to the lossless files directly, from anywhere.

When I do convert, I usually just use https://github.com/kassoulet/soundconverter - nothing fancy, but does the job. I do not maintain my whole library in both, lossless & lossy formats since I have set up Airsonic, but when I do want to save data & do not have access to WiFi, I just let Airsonic use lame to transcode to MP3s on the fly, (rare). If you cannot do that, don't have regular access to data on the go etc. I'd honestly just use https://ecasound.seul.org/ecasound/Documentation/examples.ht... and put it in a script that checks if a .flac file in a folder or subfolder has a corresponding .mp3/.ogg file and convert if not, then just use find to filter out the format I don't want to copy over. :-)