Digging in portage...

[Jerry McBride]

I was digging around in portage last night and found a real nice nugget that 
tickled me to death.

I found CDMP3... a simple script that rips audio cd's, looksup the title name 
via cdda and then write it out to disk as an mp3. 

What made me take notice was how much cleaner it was than my own rip script. 
The one in the gentoo portage is a bash script, but if you make your way to 
the authors website, he has a new version for download that's in perl.

About the only alterations I felt I had to make were; put an hdparm command at 
the top that sets my cdrom for 20x (rated top speed) reads, enabled the "bfr" 
buffering as the default setting and added the eject command at the end of 
the script. This way, it runs at top speed and spits out the disk when  it's 
done.... easy to tell that it's finished that way.

Anytime I happen to walk by and the cdrom is sticking it's tongue at me, I 
slap another disk into it and go about my work. If you happen to have more 
than one cdrom in your computer, you can run multiple copies of cdmp3 in 
their own sessions... 

Works great!

Cheers.

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