#TIL that you can rip an audio CD in #KDE just by opening it in dolphin and copying out the folder named for the format you want it in.

These are a set of virtual folders that represent the formats supported by your system to rip them into.

How cool is that?

#audiocd #ripping #music #opticaldisc #Linux #tech #deadformats

@gnuplusmatt ahhh I wish nautilus had this it would be so cool

@gnuplusmatt I was very surprised the first time I saw that, I thought the producer of the CD had added the files in different formats 😕
A really cool thing from KDE, but who still uses audio CDs?

@AurelDel I thought so too, the first one I did today was the newest CD I own (which admittedly was from 2013), and then realised that OPUS is a newer codec than the disc 😆

I am sick of paying Google to stream the same 300-400 songs over and over so I am re-ripping my old CD collection to put into my jellyfin - then will acquire the other tracks I dont own by either hunting down discs or other means

@gnuplusmatt Thanks thats indeed very useful!

For those like me who never opened a CD on their system before, the #KDE package "kio-audiocd" is needed for opening Audio CDs in dolphin, which for some reason is called "audiocd-kio" in the #Arch extra repository.

#ArchLinux

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@gnuplusmatt CDs continue to be the only way to actually own a copy for most music (with digital releases, publishers always fall for the temptation of DRMs and subscription services), so it would be better if more of us don't see it as a dead format (just yet)

@kisaragi_hiu I am redigitising my CD collection after years away with paying for streaming, honestly just sick of paying to stream the same tracks, when I can just stream it from my jellyfin server

@gnuplusmatt Exactly, yeah

@gnuplusmatt : that’s real Plan9 level UX! Really cool indeed!

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I discovered using Mate & Caja on Linux mint that an inserted CD was visible as wav files I could copy in the normal way just a couple of months ago. A couple of tracks on an old archive that wouldn't rip and played as "noise" in a regular player mysteriously were OK as the copied wav files, though a new laptop SATA DVD writer in the small form factor workstation may have helped.

@gnuplusmatt yay, just like BeOS did it with cddafs 25 years ago \o/

@gnuplusmatt I did not know that! You just gave me reason to dig up my hundreds of CDs 😶

@gnuplusmatt But it can't open Mixed Mode CDs[1]. GNOME can. 😩

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed_Mode_CD

@gnuplusmatt (and under the hood it relies on cdparanoia if I'm not mistaken)

@gnuplusmatt I genuinely hate such UX. It confuses users. They build false mental model of how CD works.

@gnuplusmatt Now if it would work with DVDs too...

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Also, the Information folder has the CDDB lookup(s) as handy text files. I copy those out and keep them in the folder with the ripped tracks. Love that feature.

@gnuplusmatt Wait what? I name a folder FLAC and copy the contents of the CD into it and KDE just does all the metadata lookup and conversion?

@gnuplusmatt it would be cooler if dolphin didn't suck with CIFS / SMB shares.

@KellicTiger it would, but this is still cool

@gnuplusmatt Welcome to future (the real one, not AI slop dystopia)

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Would be wonderful, if we were able to do the same with videos on DVD, or Blueray.

#TIL #KDE #audiocd #ripping #music #opticaldisc #Linux #tech #deadformats

@gnuplusmatt @helio One of my favourite features of KDE. I’ve used it so much in the aughts!!

@gnuplusmatt @jmtd catching up to where BeOS was 25 years ago

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What external/USB CD players work on Linux. I have quite a lot of CDs I want to rip.