Greg wrote: > short question: is CDparanoia still the standard for ripping / > encoding music? (xiph.org/paranoia was last updated in 2001) > more rambling: I want to protect my cd collection from destruction and > make use of an older computer by outfitting it with a large hard disk > and devote it to storing my music collection. I want to make a script > that more or less automatically rips a CD to my preferences. So I > want a command line CD ripper. cdparanoia still seems to be the standard (grip, the GTK-based ripper, has a builtin cdparanoia by default) > The "grand" vision: to eventually make a low res GUI that displays on > a small LCD or TV to rip music and navigate the music library. Look around on freshmeat.net, there may be already be something out there that does this. > Specifically what i would want is to have attractive buttons that call > other programs and some sort of basic file browser capability. What > do you think would be the smartest (easiest) language and packages to > do this with? I'd use Perl or Python with one of the many GUI packages available for these languages. But like I said, there is probably something already available that does what you want. -- Brett ----------- Programmer by day, Guitarist by Night http://www.chapelperilous.net http://www.alhazred.com http://www.revelmoon.com
