Tag: rip

  • If death is not the end …

    Alan Rickman reads Robyn Hitchcock’s poem “If Death is not the End …¨

    Update: Robyn posted a better recording via twitter: audioBoom / Alan Rickman reads If Death Is Not The End

  • all I wanted to do was rip a CD on my Raspberry Pi …

    So, the DVD drive on my laptop’s on the fritz. It reads data fine, but ripping CDs with CDDA checks makes it go over the transport error rainbow bridge. So, partly through necessity and partly for lulz, I wondered how well a Raspberry Pi B+ would do on ripping CDs. I’ve got an old IDE DVD-R drive in an external 5¼” USB enclosure (huge!). I set about installing abcde, which is about the leanest way of ripping CDs in a terminal that I know. The standard sudo apt-get install abcde didn’t quite come up with all of the options I’d want to use, so I made the mistake of trying this:

    sudo apt-get install --install-suggests abcde

    Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! This horror suggested I install the following:

      abcde acl akonadi-backend-mysql akonadi-backend-postgresql
      akonadi-backend-sqlite akonadi-server alien antiword apache2 apache2-doc
      apache2-mpm-worker apache2-suexec apache2-utils apache2.2-bin
      apache2.2-common apmd aptdaemon aptdaemon-data at atomicparsley auctex
      autoconf autoconf-archive autoconf-doc autoconf2.13 automake automake1.4
      autopoint autotools-dev autotrace avahi-autoipd avahi-daemon bc bind9-host
      binfmt-support binutils-multiarch bsd-mailx bsh bsh-doc bsh-gcj
      ca-certificates-java catdvi cd-discid cdparanoia cdtool chktex chromium
      chromium-browser chromium-inspector chromium-l10n cjet cl-asdf cl-swank
      clisp clisp-dev clisp-doc cm-super cm-super-minimal colord comerr-dev
      common-lisp-controller cpufrequtils cup cups cups-filters cups-pdf
      cups-pk-helper cups-ppdc darcs db5.1-util dbtoepub dc debhelper
      debiandoc-sgml debiandoc-sgml-doc default-jdk default-jdk-doc default-jre
      default-jre-headless devhelp devhelp-common dh-make dhelp diffstat distmp3
      djtools djview-plugin djview4 djvulibre-bin djvulibre-desktop doc-base
      docbook docbook-defguide docbook-dsssl docbook-dsssl-doc docbook-mathml
      docbook-xml docbook-xsl docbook-xsl-doc-html docbook-xsl-saxon dot2tex
      dvidvi dvipng eject elfutils enscript ethtool exim4 exim4-base exim4-config
      exim4-daemon-light exim4-doc-html eximon4 exiv2 eyed3 fam fancontrol feynmf
      ffmpeg finger firebird-dev firebird2.5-common firebird2.5-common-doc
      firebird2.5-examples firebird2.5-server-common flac fontforge fontforge-doc
      fontforge-extras fonts-arphic-bkai00mp fonts-arphic-bsmi00lp
      fonts-arphic-gbsn00lp fonts-arphic-gkai00mp fonts-beng fonts-beng-extra
      fonts-comfortaa fonts-deva fonts-deva-extra fonts-dustin fonts-freefont-otf
      fonts-gfs-artemisia fonts-gfs-baskerville fonts-gfs-complutum
      fonts-gfs-didot fonts-gfs-neohellenic fonts-gfs-olga fonts-gfs-porson
      fonts-gfs-solomos fonts-gubbi fonts-gujr fonts-gujr-extra fonts-guru
      fonts-guru-extra fonts-hosny-amiri fonts-inconsolata fonts-indic
      fonts-ipaexfont-gothic fonts-ipaexfont-mincho fonts-ipafont-gothic
      fonts-ipafont-mincho fonts-junicode fonts-knda fonts-knda-extra
      fonts-liberation fonts-linuxlibertine fonts-lohit-beng-assamese
      fonts-lohit-beng-bengali fonts-lohit-deva fonts-lohit-gujr fonts-lohit-guru
      fonts-lohit-knda fonts-lohit-mlym fonts-lohit-orya fonts-lohit-taml
      fonts-lohit-telu fonts-mlym fonts-nakula fonts-navilu fonts-oflb-asana-math
      fonts-orya fonts-orya-extra fonts-pagul fonts-sahadeva fonts-samyak-gujr
      fonts-samyak-taml fonts-sil-gentium fonts-sil-gentium-basic fonts-smc
      fonts-stix fonts-taml fonts-telu fonts-telu-extra
      foomatic-db-compressed-ppds foomatic-db-engine foomatic-db-gutenprint
      foomatic-filters fop fop-doc fragmaster freeglut3 freetds-common
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      gettext-doc gfortran gfortran-4.6 gfortran-4.6-doc ghostscript-cups
      ghostscript-x gimp gimp-data gimp-data-extras gimp-gutenprint
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      gir1.2-gtk-3.0 gir1.2-pango-1.0 gir1.2-vte-2.90 gnome-keyring
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      gocr grads graphicsmagick graphicsmagick-dbg graphviz graphviz-doc groff
      gstreamer0.10-alsa gstreamer0.10-doc gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg
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      icedtea-plugin icoutils id3 id3v2 ienglish-common ijsgutenprint imagemagick
      imagemagick-common imagemagick-doc info2www intltool-debian ir-keytable
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      latex-cjk-chinese-arphic-gkai00mp latex-cjk-common latex-cjk-japanese
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      libdatetime-format-w3cdtf-perl libdatetime-locale-perl libdatetime-perl
      libdatetime-timezone-perl libdb-ruby1.8 libdbd-mysql-perl libdbi-perl
      libdbi1 libdbusmenu-qt2 libdevhelp-3-0 libdigest-hmac-perl libdirac-decoder0
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      libemail-valid-perl libencode-locale-perl libepsilon0 libescpr1
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      libhtml-parser-perl libhtml-tagset-perl libhtml-template-perl
      libhtml-tree-perl libhttp-cookies-perl libhttp-daemon-perl libhttp-date-perl
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      qt4-linguist-tools qt4-qmake qt4-qmlviewer radeontool radiance radiance-doc
      radiance-materials raptor2-utils rarian-compat rasqal-utils razor re2c
      read-edid realpath recode redland-utils rhino ri ri1.8 ri1.9.1 rpm
      rpm-common rpm-i18n rpm2cpio rrdtool rtkit ruby ruby-bdb ruby-commandline
      ruby-dev ruby-gettext ruby-locale ruby-open4 ruby-svn ruby-switch
      ruby-text-format ruby1.8 ruby1.8-examples ruby1.9.1-dev sane-utils sensord
      sessioninstaller setcd setserial sgml-data sgmls-doc sgmlspl
      shared-desktop-ontologies sidplay-base slime slpd slv2-jack smistrip
      snmp-mibs-downloader soprano-daemon sp spamassassin spamc spell
      spf-tools-perl sqlite sqlite-doc sqlite3 sqlite3-doc ssl-cert subversion
      subversion-tools svn2cl swaks swath swish++ system-config-printer
      system-config-printer-kde system-config-printer-udev t1utils tcl-tclreadline
      tcl8.4 tcsh tdsodbc tex-common tex-gyre texinfo texinfo-doc-nonfree texlive
      texlive-base texlive-binaries texlive-common texlive-doc-base texlive-doc-en
      texlive-doc-zh texlive-extra-utils texlive-font-utils texlive-fonts-extra
      texlive-fonts-extra-doc texlive-fonts-recommended
      texlive-fonts-recommended-doc texlive-generic-recommended
      texlive-lang-african texlive-lang-all texlive-lang-arabic
      texlive-lang-armenian texlive-lang-cjk texlive-lang-croatian
      texlive-lang-cyrillic texlive-lang-czechslovak texlive-lang-danish
      texlive-lang-dutch texlive-lang-english texlive-lang-finnish
      texlive-lang-french texlive-lang-german texlive-lang-greek
      texlive-lang-hebrew texlive-lang-hungarian texlive-lang-indic
      texlive-lang-italian texlive-lang-latin texlive-lang-latvian
      texlive-lang-lithuanian texlive-lang-mongolian texlive-lang-norwegian
      texlive-lang-other texlive-lang-polish texlive-lang-portuguese
      texlive-lang-spanish texlive-lang-swedish texlive-lang-tibetan
      texlive-lang-vietnamese texlive-latex-base texlive-latex-base-doc
      texlive-latex-extra texlive-latex-extra-doc texlive-latex-recommended
      texlive-latex-recommended-doc texlive-luatex texlive-metapost
      texlive-metapost-doc texlive-pictures texlive-pictures-doc texlive-pstricks
      texlive-pstricks-doc texlive-xetex thailatex time tipa tix tk8.4 tntnet
      tntnet-demos tntnet-doc tntnet-runtime transfig ttf-dejavu ttf-dejavu-extra
      ttf-dustin ttf-indic-fonts ttf-liberation ttf-marvosym ttf-wqy-microhei
      tzdata-java ufraw ufraw-batch unattended-upgrades unixodbc unixodbc-bin
      unixodbc-dev unpaper upower videolan-doc virtuoso-minimal
      virtuoso-opensource-6.1-bin virtuoso-opensource-6.1-common vlc vlc-data
      vlc-nox vlc-plugin-notify vlc-plugin-pulse vorbis-tools vorbisgain
      w3-dtd-mathml w3-recs w3c-dtd-xhtml wamerican weblint-perl wwwconfig-common
      x11proto-core-dev x11proto-input-dev x11proto-kb-dev x11proto-xext-dev xalan
      xapm xaw3dg xfig xfig-doc xfig-libs xfonts-75dpi xhtml2ps xindy xindy-rules
      xorg-sgml-doctools xsane xsane-common xsidplay xsltproc xtrans-dev zip
    

    Eep! That looks like the full TeXLive system, most of QT4, almost every TrueType font ever (plus a font editor), printer drivers, the full Apache webserver setup, MySQL, a couple of web browsers, scanner drivers and OCR programs, a mail server … 2.4 GB of downloads, or over 6 GB installed. And all this for a command line script for ripping CDs.

    Eventually, I got by by installing just this:

    sudo apt-get install abcde lame eject id3 id3v2 eyed3 normalize-audio vorbisgain mkcue mp3gain libdata-dump-perl flac

    Much better. Installed in a couple of minutes. Worked quite well, if not fast — ripped and encoded a 45 minute CD in just under 26 minutes (using lame -V2, which is good enough for me). For setup hints for abcde, abcde: Command Line Music CD Ripping for Linux is a good resource. On a Raspberry Pi, with its single core processor, you probably want to set MAXPROCS=1 in the abcde.conf file, or the encoders will fight for resources and get really slow.

  • Thanks, Pete

    You did good. We’ll miss you.

  • Ooh, XLD niftiness!

    XLD‘s “Import Tags From a Text” is teh nifty for importing new or small-distribution CD (like Glass Flesh) metadata. Just paste in the track listing, define the format, and hit Apply. Done!

  • it is done

    1626 Artists / 1124 Albums / 17082 Tracks / 39.4 Days / 70.15 GB.

    That was a lot of ripping.

  • less than 100 CDs to go …

    1492 Artists / 999 Albums / 15245 Tracks / 34.9 Days / 62.12 GB
    (and here’s me thinking I had about 2000 CDs, too)

    CDs that wouldn’t read: 0 (so far). That’s not to say that there weren’t some difficulties (copy-controlled CDs can go die, glitching and gronking in my drives) and my oldest CD (XTC’s Skylarking, my copy of which I think has just turned 20) had a ton of retries.

    Lost CDs: Thomas Dolby’s Aliens Ate My Buick is somewhere in the house, but nowhere I’ve looked.

    Found CDs: My long-lost promo copy of the (Portland) Decemberists’ Picaresque, which I thought had vanished in a road trip to Missouri. It was lurking in a long-forgotten portable CD player in the bottom of a storage bin.

    Pleasant surprises: that freedb is generally better than it used to be.

    Peeves: copy-controlled CDs (see above); flappy cardboardy cases that only have the title on one spine; oversized CD cases (Japanese imports, I’m looking straight at you), dark blue text on a black background, idjit freedb submitters who insist on Band, The syntax or worse, submit whole albums called sdfsdf;aefhsdf; bonus DVD “premium” releases (who watches these?).

  • rockin’ the plastic: four turntables and an mp3 share

    Now I’ve got the Soundbridge set up to share from my server, I’ve been ripping CDs like crazy. I’ve got two drives on my Ubuntu box, and hooked an external CD drive to my laptop, so I’m rocking four drives at once. After years of using Grip, I converted to Abcde this weekend. What I really like about it is that I can run multiple copies at once, and it very nearly things right (aka “my way”) out of the box.

    By the end of tonight, I should have about 6700 tracks on my share, and a bunch of CDs in storage.

  • fauxlomo

    Portpatrick, with the Gimp faux lomo effect
    Portpatrick, taken with a Fujifilm MX-1200 pretending to be a lomo

    For probably no better reason beyond babbittry, I’ve always half-wanted a lomo. Half-wanted, that is, because of my previous experience with “Russian” photo gear (I’ve had a Lomo TLR, a Fed rangefinder, and a Pentacon six) and its legendary quality control. I’m also so done with film.
    A while back, Donncha wrote about a  GIMP Lomo Plugin. While it looked handy, the link to the code is now dead. You can find what I think is the same one here: http://flelay.free.fr/pool/lomo2.scm (or a local copy here if that link dies: lomo2.scm). Just pop it in your .gimp-2.2/scripts/ directory, and it’ll appear as a filter. The original author‘s comment on Donncha’s blog contains good settings: Vignetting softness=1, Contrast=30, Saturation=30, Double Vignetting=TRUE.

    I knew there was a reason I retrieved my old 1.3 megapixel Fujifilm MX-1200 from my parents’ house. And that reason is fauxlomo!

  • All the printers I’ve ever owned …

    bird you can see: hp print test

    • An ancient (even in 1985) Centronics serial dot-matrix printer that we never got working with the CPC464. The print head was driven along a rack, and when it hit the right margin, an idler gear was wedged in place, forcing the carriage to return. Crude, noisy but effective.
    • Amstrad DMP-2000. Plasticky but remarkably good 9-pin printer. Had an open-loop ribbon that we used to re-ink with thick oily endorsing ink until the ribbons wore through.
    • NEC Pinwriter P20. A potentially lovely 24-pin printer ruined by a design flaw. Print head pins would get caught in the ribbon, and snap off. It didn’t help that the dealer that sold it to me wouldn’t refund my money, and required gentle persuasion from a lawyer to do so.
    • Kodak-Diconix 300 inkjet printer. I got this to review for Amiga Computing, and the dealer never wanted it back. It used HP ThinkJet print gear which used tiny cartridges that sucked ink like no tomorrow; you could hear the droplets hit the page.
    • HP DeskJet 500. I got this for my MSc thesis. Approximately the shape of Torness nuclear power station (and only slightly smaller), last I heard it was still running.
    • Canon BJ 200. A little mono inkjet printer that ran to 360dpi, or 720 if you had all the time in the world and an unlimited ink budget.
    • Epson Stylus Colour. My first colour printer. It definitely couldn’t print photos very well.
    • HP LaserJet II. Big, heavy, slow, and crackling with ozone, this was retired from Glasgow University. Made the lights dim when it started to print. Came with a clone PostScript cartridge that turned it into the world’s second-slowest PS printer. We did all our Canadian visa paperwork on it.
    • Epson Stylus C80. This one could print photos tolerably well, but the cartridges dried out quickly, runing the quality and making it expensive to run.
    • Okidata OL-410e PS. The world’s slowest PostScript printer. Sold by someone on tortech who should’ve known better (and bought by someone who also should’ve known better), this printer jams on every sheet fed into it due to a damaged paper path. Unusually, it uses an LED imaging system instead of laser xerography, and has a weird open-hopper toner system that makes transporting a part-used print cartridge a hazard.
    • HP LaserJet 4M Plus. With its duplexer and extra paper tray it’s huge and heavy, but it still produces crisp pages after nearly 1,000,000 page impressions. I actually have two of these; one was bought for $99 refurbished, and the other (which doesn’t print nearly so well) was got on eBay for $45, including duplexer and 500-sheet tray. Combining the two (and judiciously adding a bunch of RAM) has given me a monster network printer which lets you know it’s running by dimming the lights from here to Etobicoke.
    • IBM Wheelwriter typewriter/ daisywheel printer. I’ve only ever produced a couple of pages on this, but this is the ultimate letter-quality printer. It also sounds like someone slowly machine-gunning the neighbourhood, so mostly lives under wraps.
    • HP PhotoSmart C5180. It’s a network photo printer/scanner that I bought yesterday. Really does print indistinguishably from photos, and prints direct from memory cards. When first installed, makes an amusing array of howls, boinks, squeals, beeps and sproings as it primes the print heads.
  • a bit better than before

    I just ran the fuel numbers for our recent grand trip to Missouri. For 4380km in a Honda Civic DX, we used about 292 litres of fuel. That works out to be 6.7l/100km (or 42.3 / 35.3 UK / US mpg). That’s not quite as good as I’d hoped; I’ll put it down to driving a little fast on very chunky snow tyres.

    At least it’s better than last time

  • home again

    The 4000km holiday roadtrip is over. We’re back home now. It was good to be away, but it’s also good to be back.

  • rip the carpet up off the floor

    It’s moving day. We’re moving the office from North York to downtown. Very downtown, in fact; 200 University, almost my old Oanda stamping ground.

    In celebration of leaving Vic Park & Sheppard, I guess I really must have one last burger from Johnny’s…

  • on the move

    We’re flying back today. It’s been a great trip.

  • outlook contacts to palm, iPod, etc …

    This is a neat workaround: Export Outlook Contacts using a small VB script. It works, too — I now have all my work contacts in my Palm.

  • a tiny stub-tailed birdlet

    Our tree is filled with Ruby-crowned Kinglets, and the title is Peterson’s poetic description of them. I guess they’re feeding up to migrate a bit south. Give news of yourselves when you bring spring back with you!

  • damp bandit

    I was busy making Möbius strips out of till roll, when I became aware of a little face watching me at the window. A very damp raccoon had one paw up on the window sill, and was looking at me as if to ask, “What are you doing making single-sided paper figures on a night like this?”

  • bike work

    There is something very pleasing about working on one’s bike of an evening, racing against the fading light. I stripped the ancient bar tape of the tourer, and started on refurbishing the brakes. I think that 1987 was the year that cantilevers got good, and since I have a 1986 Super Galaxy, the old Shimano BR-AT50s were pretty poor. New Alivios don’t quite have the finish of the old units, but they’ll work, meaning I’ll be able to stop without a full city block’s notice.

  • more fish

    Got more fish from Finatics today: four high-fin platies, three algae-eaters, and three more threestrip corys. Our tank is busy!