On 2007-10-11, klee12 <klee12@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>
> Andrew wrote:
>> It was a bit of a PITA to get all this together but it now produces
>> single command ripping and conversion.
>
> I'm getting old. I'm not as willing to spend much time getting chasing
> down programs as I was when I was younger. If I have to, I'll do it
> but I make a cost benefit analysis: is the benefit worth the expected
> time it takes to get everything together. Installing one or two
> packages is easy, but tracking down 5 or 6 packages is getting to be a
> pain, especially because I 'm making more mistakes now than I when I
> was younger. It doesn't take long to boot into windows and let
> iTunes rip and insert into my ipod; doing everything in Linux would be
> only be a little more convenient.

I will admit that I had a few doubts when chasing this stuff up. But I
cheated and I already have 4 scripts for abcde: 1 each for mp3, ogg
and flac as well as one that rips all three together and places in a
seperate directory so I knew it was worth while doing.

Andrew



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