encoding entire music CD as one Mp3... the _EASY_ way?!!

1337_5l4xx0r1337_5l4xx0r
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in Genius Bar edited January 2014
Now, I am pretty 1337, hence the nick, but I have to admit this one's got me stumped. FYI, I've searched google endlessly and have yet to figure out the easy(er) way to rip an entire music (compilation, DJ mixed) CD as one aiff for mp3 encoding, or get an MP3 encoder to rip the CD as one huge MP3.



So my method right now, which I'm sure is The Hard Way?, is thus:



(in terminal.app)

manually rip each track off the CD using sox and convert it to a .raw file on my HD.



cat 0[0-9].raw > entirecd.raw

lame --preset standard entirecd.raw entirecd.mp3 #<- lame's quality is rad!



OMFG does this ever take a long time. You can't cat a bunch of mp3's together, because of some sort of header file in them (and catting them together places them all under the first header). Ditto for aiffs. I've tried, believe me I've tried.



Sow how the hell do other OS's do this?

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 2
    lucaluca Posts: 3,833member
    You can use the "Join Tracks" function in iTunes. Insert a CD, select whatever tracks you want to join (just two or three in a row, or the whole CD, it doesn't matter), and go to the Advanced menu and select Join CD Tracks. Then, when you rip to MP3, those tracks you joined will become a single MP3. You can't do it without the original CD though.
  • Reply 2 of 2
    1337_5l4xx0r1337_5l4xx0r Posts: 1,558member
    Dude, thanks! I'd never have discovered that by myself.



    cheers!
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