Jtdcftul

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. ;)

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:

sudo apt-get install abcde cdparanoia flac metaflac imagemagick glyrc

Then place the following configuration in a file ~/.abcde.conf:

# -----------------$HOME/.abcde.conf----------------- #

# 

# A sample configuration file to convert music cds to 

#       FLAC using abcde version 2.7.2

# 

# Modified for AskUbuntu http://askubuntu.com/q/867593/57576

#  to allow ReplayGain as well as Album Art retrieval...

#

# http://andrews-corner.org/linux/abcde/index.html

# -------------------------------------------------- #



# Encode tracks immediately after reading. Saves disk space, gives

# better reading of 'scratchy' disks and better troubleshooting of

# encoding process but slows the operation of abcde quite a bit:

LOWDISK=y



# Specify the method to use to retrieve the track information,

# the alternative is to specify 'musicbrainz':

CDDBMETHOD=cddb



# Make a local cache of cddb entries and then volunteer to use 

# these entries when and if they match the cd:

CDDBCOPYLOCAL="y"

CDDBLOCALDIR="$HOME/.cddb"

CDDBLOCALRECURSIVE="y"

CDDBUSELOCAL="y"



# Specify the encoder to use for FLAC. In this case

# flac is the only choice.

FLACENCODERSYNTAX=flac



# Specify the path to the selected encoder. In most cases the encoder

# should be in your $PATH as I illustrate below, otherwise you will 

# need to specify the full path. For example: /usr/bin/flac

FLAC=flac



# Specify your required encoding options here. Multiple options can

# be selected as '--best --another-option' etc.

# Overall bitrate is about 880 kbs/s with level 8.

FLACOPTS='-s -e -V -8' 



# Output type for FLAC.

OUTPUTTYPE="flac"



# Options to pass to metaflac for ReplayGain:

FLACGAINOPTS="--add-replay-gain"



# The cd ripping program to use. There are a few choices here: cdda2wav,

# dagrab, cddafs (Mac OS X only) and flac. New to abcde 2.7 is 'libcdio'.

CDROMREADERSYNTAX=cdparanoia            



# Give the location of the ripping program and pass any extra options,

# if using libcdio set 'CD_PARANOIA=cd-paranoia'.

CDPARANOIA=cdparanoia  

CDPARANOIAOPTS="--never-skip=40"



# Give the location of the CD identification program:       

CDDISCID=cd-discid            



# Give the base location here for the encoded music files.

OUTPUTDIR="$HOME/Music"               



# The default actions that abcde will take.

ACTIONS=cddb,getalbumart,playlist,read,replaygain,encode,tag,move,clean



# Decide here how you want the tracks labelled for a standard 'single-artist',

# multi-track encode and also for a multi-track, 'various-artist' encode:

OUTPUTFORMAT='${OUTPUT}/${ARTISTFILE}-${ALBUMFILE}/${TRACKNUM}.${TRACKFILE}'

VAOUTPUTFORMAT='${OUTPUT}/Various-${ALBUMFILE}/${TRACKNUM}.${ARTISTFILE}-${TRACKFILE}'



# Decide here how you want the tracks labelled for a standard 'single-artist',

# single-track encode and also for a single-track 'various-artist' encode.

# (Create a single-track encode with 'abcde -1' from the commandline.)

ONETRACKOUTPUTFORMAT='${OUTPUT}/${ARTISTFILE}-${ALBUMFILE}/${ALBUMFILE}'

VAONETRACKOUTPUTFORMAT='${OUTPUT}/Various-${ALBUMFILE}/${ALBUMFILE}'



# Create playlists for single and various-artist encodes. I would suggest

# commenting these out for single-track encoding.

PLAYLISTFORMAT='${OUTPUT}/${ARTISTFILE}-${ALBUMFILE}/${ALBUMFILE}.m3u'

VAPLAYLISTFORMAT='${OUTPUT}/Various-${ALBUMFILE}/${ALBUMFILE}.m3u'



# This function takes out dots preceding the album name, and removes a grab

# bag of illegal characters. It allows spaces, if you do not wish spaces add

# in -e 's/ /_/g' after the first sed command.

mungefilename ()

{

  echo "$@" | sed -e 's/^.*//' | tr -d ":><|*/"'?[:cntrl:]"

}



# What extra options?

MAXPROCS=2                              # Run a few encoders simultaneously

PADTRACKS=y                             # Makes tracks 01 02 not 1 2

EXTRAVERBOSE=2                          # Useful for debugging

COMMENT='abcde version 2.7.2'           # Place a comment...

EJECTCD=y                               # Please eject cd when finished :-)

This is a basic configuration and many, many more options are available including:

1. Automatic embedding of the downloaded album art


2. Many, many other options for album art downloading


3. Different flac encoding options


4. The possibility of encoding to multiple other codecs simultaneously


5. Different file naming, folder locations etc

But this basic configuration may very well be enough for your purposes. If so simply insert you Audio CD and run the command:

abcde

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 <-----:

General

Complete name                            : 01.Speak To Me Breathe.flac

Format                                   : FLAC

Format/Info                              : Free Lossless Audio Codec

File size                                : 20.2 MiB

Duration                                 : 4 min 0 s

Overall bit rate mode                    : Variable

Overall bit rate                         : 705 kb/s

Album replay gain                        : -3.68 dB  <-----

Album replay gain peak                   : 0.968201  <-----

Album                                    : Dark Side Of The Moon 1992 remaster

Track name                               : Speak To Me Breathe

Track name/Position                      : 01

Track name/Total                         : 09

Performer                                : Pink Floyd

Genre                                    : Psychedelic Rock

Recorded date                            : 1973

Cover                                    : Yes

Cover type                               : Cover (front)

Cover MIME                               : image/jpeg

Comment                                  : abcde version 2.7.2

CDDB                                     : 710a1109



Audio

Format                                   : FLAC

Format/Info                              : Free Lossless Audio Codec

Duration                                 : 4 min 0 s

Bit rate mode                            : Variable

Bit rate                                 : 705 kb/s

Channel(s)                               : 2 channels

Channel positions                        : Front: L R

Sampling rate                            : 44.1 kHz

Bit depth                                : 16 bits

Replay gain                              : -0.48 dB  <-----

Replay gain peak                         : 0.679779  <-----

Stream size                              : 20.2 MiB (100%)

Writing library                          : libFLAC 1.3.1 (UTC 2014-11-25)

References:

• abcde: Downloading Album Art...


• abcde: Ripping with lossless codecs...