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<sect1 id="audio-cd">
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<sect1info>
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<author>
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<personname>
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<firstname>Deepak</firstname>
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<surname>Sarda</surname>
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</personname>
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<email>antrix@gmail.com</email>
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</author>
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</sect1info>
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<title>Audio CD Ripping in &tde;</title>
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<para>The conventional way of ripping Audio CDs to MP3 or Ogg files is to
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use a standalone program such as <trademark class="registered"><application>iTunes</application></trademark>, Winamp or &tde;'s own
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<application>KAudioCreator</application>. But if we stick to conventions,
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where's the fun?! So in this article, I am going to show you how to feel
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elite by ripping your CDs in the, umm.. elite way. ;-) </para>
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<sect2 id="audio-cd-ingredients">
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<title>Ingredients</title>
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<para>What do we need to be cool? Vanilla &tde;, without any extra
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ingredients, will be able to rip your CDs. But to encode them, you'll need
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to install the relevant codecs. At the moment, Ogg Vorbis, MP3 and FLAC formats
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are supported. To enable encoding to these formats, you'll have to install
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libogg, lame and flac respectively. How exactly you install these depends on
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your distribution: take a look at their documentation to find out how.</para>
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<para>Once you have your favourite codec(s) installed, open &kcontrolcenter; and navigate your way to <menuchoice><guimenu>Sound &
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Multimedia</guimenu><guimenuitem>Audio CDs</guimenuitem></menuchoice>
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and configure the settings on the various tabs to your liking. You can leave
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everything in the default state if you so wish, but it's helpful to take a
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look so you at least know what's on offer. Again, take a look at
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<menuchoice><guimenu>Sound & Multimedia</guimenu><guimenuitem>CDDB
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Retrieval</guimenuitem></menuchoice> and change anything that's not to your
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liking. <acronym>CDDB</acronym>, in case you didn't know, stands for CD DataBase (or Compact
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Disc DataBase in it's more free flowing form). This functionality enables
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&tde; to retrieve the Artist/Album/Track information about your CDs from the
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Internet. This metadata is also used to write tags to the MP3 or Ogg files
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that you'll be encoding your CDs to anytime now.</para>
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<mediaobject>
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<imageobject>
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<imagedata format="PNG" fileref="ripsettings.png"/>
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</imageobject>
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</mediaobject>
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</sect2>
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<sect2 id="audio-cd-recipe">
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<title>Recipe</title>
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<para>Without further delay, let's get down to the business of being cool.
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First, pop in the CD you want to rip (obviously!). Next, fire up a
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&konqueror; window and open the <guilabel>Services</guilabel> tab on the Navigation panel. The
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Navigation panel sits on the left side of the window, as shown in the
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screenshot below. If it's not visible, you can produce it out of thin air by
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pressing the magic <keycap>F9</keycap> key.</para>
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<mediaobject>
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<imageobject>
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<imagedata format="PNG" fileref="services.png"/>
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</imageobject>
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</mediaobject>
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<para>Now click on Audio CD Browser and in a few seconds, you'll see a lot
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of folders which you can start browsing. If it's taking some time to show
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anything, it's because it's trying to fetch information about the CD from
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the CDDB database you configured earlier.</para>
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<para>In the screenshot below, you can see the contents of the Ogg Vorbis
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folder. It shows all the songs in the Ogg format; it even shows their file
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size! But, you and I both know that audio CDs don't contain Ogg tracks. So
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what exactly is happening here?</para>
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<mediaobject>
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<imageobject>
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<imagedata format="PNG" fileref="oggfolder.png"/>
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</imageobject>
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</mediaobject>
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<para>All the folders you see under Audio CD Browser are virtual folders.
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They show contents of the CD through different filters, so to speak. When
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you open the Ogg Vorbis folder, you are actually seeing the contents of the
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CD <emphasis>as if</emphasis> it were stored in the Ogg format. You can go through the other
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folders and you'll find MP3, flac and wav representations of the CD's
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contents. You can even see the approximate file sizes when encoded in the
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various formats.</para>
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<para>So how do we rip and encode the CD? I think you can guess the answer
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by now. Just decide which format you wish to rip to, open that folder, and
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copy and paste those files in your target folder. That's it! &tde; will start
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ripping and encoding the files on the fly! If you copy any of the files in
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the <guilabel>Full CD</guilabel> folder, you'll be ripping the entire CD as
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one continuous stream.</para>
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<mediaobject>
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<imageobject>
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<imagedata format="PNG" fileref="rip.png"/>
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</imageobject>
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</mediaobject>
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<!-- Add links to "further reading" here -->
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<itemizedlist>
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<title>Related Information</title>
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<listitem><para>The <application>amaroK</application> website at
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<ulink url="http://amarok.sf.net">http://amarok.sf.net</ulink> has the
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latest news and information about <application>amaroK</application>.</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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<!-- TODO: Add a link to the full audiocd documentation as soon as -->
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<!-- it's fixed :-) -->
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</sect2>
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