Tips for a Personal Music Archive

[Joseph Hall]

On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 3:59 PM, Nicholas Leippe <nick at leippe.com> wrote:
> I have my own custom script for ripping & encoding.
>  I rip each cd twice, once each from two different drives, and compare them.
>  I have calculated the offsets of each drive and use the -O flag on cdparanoia.
>  Since I have two drives, and two cpus, I wrote it to do all five tasks at once
>  in a pipeline fashion--2 ripping, 1 diffing, and 2 encoding simultaneously.

Wow. I am impressed, and intrigued. Combine with a robotic arm for a
truly automated setup:

http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/03/diy_cd_changer.html

>  If you want to calculate your drive's offset, I'd be happy to tell you how.

Is it short enough to post here? I have a couple of newly-acquired
drives that I acquired with ripping specifically in mind. They're both
Plextor iirc, but I'm out of town until Friday night, so can't check
model numbers until then.

-- 
Joseph
http://blog.josephhall.com/