Justin Smith wrote: > On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 10:25 PM, Justin Smith <noisesmith@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 9:54 PM, Arthur <arthura@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> > >> > Roger E wrote: >> > > Another happy Amarok user here. I always fix the tags with Easytag >> > > before adding them to the collection. With proper tags the search works >> > > perfectly. Easytag can fetch tags from cddb also, and rename files from >> > > tags. >> > > If only Amarok had a replay gain function like fb2k I reckon it would be >> > > perfect. It does take over half an hour to scan my 10000 tracks, but >> > > hey, you only need to do that once. >> > > _______________________________________________ >> > > Linux-audio-user mailing list >> > > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> > > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user >> > > >> > > >> > I also think that amarok is great, but I have a very fast computer. I >> > don't fix tags with easytag (but I do think that it's a great program), >> > I rip with rubyripper and everything is ready to dump into my music >> > folder as is. If you folks don't know about rubyripper, please check it >> > out. I found out about it when I was running archlinux and I hope that >> > there are binaries for every distro soon. No, I am not affiliated with >> > rubyripper in any way. >> > >> > Enjoy, >> > Arthur >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Linux-audio-user mailing list >> > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user >> > >> >> >> From the wikipedia page for the program: >> >> One has to wonder though: can 3 bytes actually be heard in a wav file >> that produces 180.000 bytes per second? >> >> The answer is a definitive yes, and if you are (un)lucky, they may >> just blow your speakers too. And I presume by 180,000 bytes per second >> they mean 176,400. >> >> Since it is a ruby application, presumably it wouldn't even be >> possible to have a binary for it if you wanted one (or is it mixed >> ruby/c?). >> Don't know, I installed from a .deb package. It works. >> It does look like an interesting application, but their alogorithms >> are either very naively implemented or the wikipedia page explains >> them poorly. >> >> > > I can only say, try it. I have been very pleased. I am a composer and my ears still function. I have hafler audio equipment and I can't hear the difference between my cd's and a rubyripper rip. YMMV, but it may please you as much as it's pleased me. I have tried many other rippers. > Arthur _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
