Re: [LAU] how to rip .aiff files

Hi Reid,

I assume that this is a data CD, so you can just mount it and access
the files. To convert to wav, you could use sox (apt-get install sox)
or sndfile-convert (apt-get install sndfile-programs). Both determine
the desired format from the extension, so something like

sox /media/cdrom/foo.aiff /some/path/foo.wav

should do the trick.

If you want to batch convert all files, maybe do something like

cd /media/cdrom
for file in *.aiff; do sox $file /some/path/`echo $file | sed s/aiff/
wav/`; done

(other solutions with find, xargs, basename come to mind)

maarten

On Jan 11, 2009, at 7:41 PM, Reid Vail wrote:

> Hello group -
>
> I'm a pretty experienced linux \ ubuntu user trying to rip a CD with
> .aiff files and convert them to some format that more easily
> understood
> by some of my not-so-high-tech audio equipment. A .wav format comes
> to
> mind but I'm flexible.
>
> Do you know of utility that will do this? I tried GRIP and even
> loaded
> flac, but probably got it wrong. Just FYI the disc is readable and
> plays (.aiff format and all) with Rhythymbox, so I know that much
> works :->
>
> many thanks
>
> Reid
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