I'm planning to rip my full CD collection (probably more than 100 CDs*) to FLAC with CDparanoia and ReplayGain tags added.
Over the years, I used different codecs and quality options for them, meaning I have some of those albums in MP3 CBR 320, some as V0-4 and some in Ogg Vorbis. Now, I would like to re-rip them all losslessly and I could use a program that lets me do all these tasks with the least amount of manual work involved.
Is there any program that you can think of that is able to rip CDs accurately to FLAC and add ReplayGain as well? (GUI or command line is both fine.)
- Update: They are around 260, in fact. Conunting cases, excl. Bonus disks, DVDs, etc. 😉
Best Answer
Full disclosure: I am one of the former maintainers of abcde.
The command line ripper
abcde
has this ability. To install simply run the following command in a Terminal window:Then place the following configuration in a file
~/.abcde.conf
:This is a basic configuration and many, many more options are available including:
But this basic configuration may very well be enough for your purposes. If so simply insert you Audio CD and run the command:
And all should be well!
Note: Values are stored for both track and album gain, see the
mediainfo
output below. I have highlighted album and track values with a <-----:References: