On Monday 09 October 2006 23:40, carmen wrote: > anyone got a 1-line bash cd-ripping script? > presumably this is what grip ends up doing anwyays.. Yeah, after it goes out and looks up the artist and track names on cddb/freedb/flavorofthemonthdb, and then uses those names when it creates the wav and/or mp3/ogg files. You might be able to do that in bash but I think your one liner might be a pretty long line. I personally prefer ripperX, or a gambas app I wrote years ago, probably wouldn't even compile now, that lets me selectively merge consecutive tracks (lots of Yes, Mike Oldfield, Pink Floyd, etc. in my collection) but grip is fine. I have a perl script I use when I want to rip CD after CD, but it's a lot more than one line. Speaking of which, does anyone know of a reliable way, in whatever language, to either (a) detect if a CD drive's tray is open, or (b) detect whether there's media present without sucking the CD drive's tray in (i.e. if it's popped out, assume there is no media?) I started looking in /dev and /proc files and investigating ioctls and all that stuff back then but I never did get it working. It's like Schroedinger's CD tray. Rob
