Re: Using GRIP to rip .aiff, write .wav

Reid Vail wrote:

> I have a few discs with .aiff tracks and want to rip these and output 
> them as .wav (or any other more standard format that my local 
> (lower-tech) CD players will recognize. 

There are basically two kinds of CDs: audio CDs and data CDs. The kind
that you can buy in stores and play with your "lower-tech" CD players
are audio CDs.

Audio CDs don't have files on them. But you can rip them to get files
which you can store on your harddisk. You could also burn these files on
a data CD, but "lower-tech" CD players cannot read data CDs, only audio
CDs.

So you'll have to create a audio CD from your files. Some CD burning
programs (like k3b) support direct conversion from MP3 or Ogg/Vorbis
files. But with .aiff it might not work directly in k3b. You'll have to
convert your files to .wav (44.1 kHz 16 bit Stereo PCM). Try
soundkonverter (KDE), soundconverter (Gnome) or sox (command line).

Once you have "normal" .wav files you can use k3b or any other burn
program to burn your audio CD.
 
> I believe flac will do this, and I have it loaded and can see that GRIP 
> supports it, but I'm not sure how to configure GRIP to execute what I 
> want.  Any thoughts would be welcome.

Grip "only" does the ripping (digital audio extraction) of audio CDs and
the conversion of the ripped data. It cannot burn CDs and it's also not
really useful to convert existing files from one format into another
format.

Regards...
                Michael

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