Minimal CD Ripper
Back in London I bought a couple CDs. Obviously I don’t use CD players anymore, I mostly stream all the music I hear (jamendo, spotify, last.fm). Though, if I want to hear music using my n900 without any network connection, I ought drop in there the music files. So, the solution is rip out the music from the CDs, encode them et voilà.The obvious solution to rip music is SoundJuicer, and I started to compile it within my jhbuild environment, but I found a huge list of dependencies which I didn’t want to install, such as brasero. As everybody knows the next logical think then is “let’s code a simple cd ripper”.
Vala was my chosen language (and don’t ask why). What I wanted was have metadata in the files (life without metadata is not feasible anymore), also I want to encode the files in AAC/MPEG4, and finally I didn’t want any user interaction: just run the program and have my directory with my music.
The first problem I found was that Vala hasn’t bindings for libmusicbrainz, so I started to cook one for libmusicbrainz v2.x, which I found terrible bad to port to Vala and also it is already deprecated. Then I cooked another for libmusicbrainz3.
After that, I also found that GstTagSetter wasn’t bind to Vala either, so I made the patches for it and another for the GstIterator.
Solved all those issues, finally I came with my mcdripper!
http://gitorious.org/vjaquez-misc/mcdripper
Ah, by the way, it uses async methods, so you’ll need a recent Vala (I use the git’s version).
And finally I’ve been ripping my new CDs and storing the files in my N900.
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