[SunRescue] MP3 collections

[Kurt Mosiejczuk]

On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Al Potter wrote:

> Napster is useful for finding that old crufty stuff which is impossible to
> locate otherwise.  Further, when ripping from my collection, I used napster to
> fill in the blanks where I had trouble getting a clean rip from a damaged CD.

What do people use for ripping and encoding?  I always use cdparanoia,
although considering that it doesn't currently run on anything but
linux, I could see it being less popular.  (I can forgive the stall in
the portable app, as the author is one of the driving forces behind
Ogg Vorbis).

I also use bladeenc to do the actual conversion to MP3.  It seems people
either love it or hate it.  I fall into the former =)

Although, I need to rebuild my collection since I left my last job
and the network drive they were on... although it'll take a while,
since I ripped them all from my CDs....

--Kurt