Re: Ripping multiple tracks as a single

On 2007-12-10, Todd Zullinger wrote:

> Aubreywan wrote:
>>   This may seem like a noob question, but I have some live cds that I
>> want to rip as a single track instead of separate ones.  Any ideas on
>> how to do this?
>
> I don't think grip can do this for you.  But it wouldn't be hard to do
> from the command line using the tools that grip calls.
>
> You could rip the whole album to a wav file using cdparanoia, then
> encode it with lame (or flac or ogg or...).  If the album had 10
> tracks, using cdparanoia 1-10 would rip the whole album into a file
> named cddb.wav.  If you wanted, you could even pipe things straight
> from cdparanoia to your encoder if you wanted:
>
> cdparanoia 1-10 - | lame -V 1 --vbr-new - album.mp3

You can also use sox with no option to "cat" audio files together:

 $  sox  track1.wav track2.wav track3.wav track4.wav whole_thing.wav

with the requirement that all the files must have the same type and
sampling rate.


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