[ale] Ripping Vinyl

[Sue Bauer-Lee]

There's an online CDDB database with this information for most CD releases.
You can also get track information from some of the Amazon listings.
I think the link for the CDDB database is http://www.cddb.com.

On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 04:00:42PM +0000, joshy wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 10:49:54AM -0500, David Corbin wrote:
> > 
> > I'm getting set to turn a bunch of vinyl albums into digital data.   I'm
> > sure I can figure out most of the steps on my own.  Right now, I'm
> > looking at linux tools that will take a single .wav file (ripped from
> > the LP), and convert it into tracks.  So far I've found gramofile, but
> > I was wondering if anyone here new of any others.
> > 
> > In a related note, I'm probably going to burn some of these LPs as
> > standard audio CDs.  Is there a way to "tricking the world" into
> > thinking that it is the SAME as a purchased CD of the same album?  I'm
> > not really trying to trick the world, just to have it "hookup with the
> > online databases...."  
> 
> CDDB determines the identity of a CD by running the track numbers and times
> through a hashing algorithm. If you borrow a copy of the real CD from someone
> and get a list of the track times (or find some other way of getting the
> numbers from CDDB) then you could burn your new CD with the same numbers.
> 
> Of course if you had a copy of the real CD then you could just burn that,
> saving you the trouble, so perhaps it's not worth it.
> 
> - Joshua
> 
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