Musepack SV8 mpcenc CD-Ripper for Linux !
Reply #4 – 2010-10-21 16:54:19
In Debian the SV8 version of musepack is included in testing/squeeze, the package name is musepack-tools. If you're happy to use a command line ripper then ripit supports SV8 just fine, and also supports the older version if you prefer it. I'm not sure I ever encoded anything using musepack before but I just tried it with ripit and it worked fine; the CD audio was securely ripped, encoded to mpc, named and tagged, and replaygain automatically applied using mpcgain. It sounds great... just like my mp3s, oggs and flacs of the same CD :-)$ mpcdec -i 01\ -\ John\ Paul\ Jones\:\ So\ ell\ encina.mpc mpcdec - Musepack (MPC) decoder v1.0.0 (C) 2006-2009 MDT Built May 31 2010 16:23:03 file: 01 - John Paul Jones: So ell encina.mpc stream version 8 encoder: --Stable-- 1.30.1 profile: 'Standard' (q=5.00) PNS: off mid/side stereo: on gapless: on average bitrate: 170.9 kbps samplerate: 44100 Hz channels: 2 length: 3:51 (10197684 samples) file size: 4940364 Bytes track peak: 84.88 dB track gain: 60.20 dB / 4.62 dB album peak: 89.38 dB album gain: 58.38 dB / 6.44 dB One thing that doesn't seem possible when using ripit with musepack (compared to using ripit with ogg vorbis, flac, lame mp3) is that it doesn't automatically embed cover art in the tags. I believe mpc files use APE tags. I'm not sure if there are tools in Ubuntu or Debian which can add album art to files using APE. There may well be but I don't know what they are, perhaps someone else can offer some info. Unfortunately for Ubuntu users some of the stuff in universe and multiverse seems to be gathering dust and collecting cobwebs. For suitable binary packages of musepack-tools and ripit I think you'll need to try out the packages from Debian testing (no guarantee they will work in Ubuntu) or build them yourself from source. For ripit you need at least version 3.8.3, but the recent stable 3.9.0 is preferable. If your drive passes the cdparanoia analysis `cdparanoia -A` and you know the read offset then you will be all set. If your drive doesn't pass the analysis and you don't know the read offset you won't be any worse off than when using grip ;-) edit:typo(s)