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For audio geek who wants a high quality audio extraction from their CD collection

• haunter 4y ago
  Thank you Chat GPT
  • wyager 4y ago
    I have noticed a lot of super low-effort comments like this recently. They typically don't even write as well as current-gen chatbots.
  • amacneil 4y ago
    Fyi this is just the OP adding a description
• lern_too_spel 4y ago
  Why would I use this over abcde, another cdparanoia frontend that is packaged for every major distro?
  • SinePost 4y ago
    I second this question. I've used both before; the user experience is basically the same, and there's no audible difference between the two.
  • thebrid 4y ago
    My understanding is whipper is more paranoid than abcde. whipper does a couple things to ensure a perfect rip: * Rips tracks twice and ensures the checksums match (retrying if they do not) * Compares the track checksums against the AccurateRip database I think this gives much more confidence that the result is correct. The tags seem a lot more detailed with whipper too.
    • rsync 4y ago
      What I appreciated most about 'abcde' was that just prior to the rip it would open up the CDDB output in 'vim' and allow quick and easy edits to what are, sometimes, horrific titling and track entries ... It's a very nice workflow and avoids a lot of cleanup ...