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MP3 Tutorial by Steve Dalton

(Presented at the December 2008 meeting of the Oak Point Computer Club)

To encode mp3 files is more complicated than playing them back, since it involves 2 discrete stages:

• 1. getting audio onto your computer into an accepted digital audio format

• 2. converting digital audio to mp3 format.

If you have a CD you wish to convert to mp3 format, you will need "CD ripper" software.

Amid the confusion of this technological revolution we can't afford to lose track of what's legal and what's not. Record companies are serving papers to individual audio pirates left and right (record companies also still sue other companies, don't forget). Luckily for those who create their own music, the laws are quite simple.

You have every right to encode your own composition to .mp3 format and distribute it on the Internet. Just make sure that you solely own the rights and permissions to the composition.

It is also legal to encode MP3s of music that you've bought for personal use for home listening, but it's illegal to give anyone copies. Do not upload such MP3s to a publically accessible webserver.

For answers to further questions about the MP3 technology, piracy, and copyright infringement, read MP3: Ethical and Legal Issues on Webmonkey. For discussion of formats and technical issues, join the Technology mailing list.

CD ripper

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A CD ripper, CD grabber or CD extractor is a piece of software designed to extract or "rip" raw digital audio (in format commonly called CDDA) from a compact disc to a file or other output

Introduction

ripperX for GNU/Linux

As an intermediate step, some ripping programs save the extracted audio in a lossless (but possibly compressed format) such as WAV, FLAC, or even raw PCM audio.

The extracted audio can then be encoded with a lossy codec like MP3, Vorbis, WMA or AAC. The encoded files are more compact and are suitable for playback on digital audio players. They may also be played back in a media player program on a computer.

Most ripping programs will assist in tagging the encoded files with metadata. The MP3 file format, for example, allows tags with title, artist, album and track number information. Some will try to identify the disc being ripped by looking up network services like AMG's LASSO, FreeDB, Gracenote’s CDDB, GD3 [1] or MusicBrainz, or attempt text extraction if CD-Text has been stored.

Some all-in-one ripping programs can simplify the entire process by ripping and burning the audio to disc in one step, possibly re-encoding the audio on-the-fly in the process.

Mac OS

• iTunes

• Max (ripping software)

• X Lossless Decoder

Windows

• Audiograbber

• Audio Transcoder [2]

• BonkEnc

• CDex

• dBpoweramp

• Easy CD-DA Extractor

• Exact Audio Copy (EAC)

• foobar2000

• iTunes

• Jack! The Knife

• MediaMonkey

• Musicmatch Jukebox

• Ripstation Micro Freeware [3]

• Spider Player

• Winamp

• Windows Media Player

Sample Screen using Windows media player to RIP CD

Sample Screen using Itunes to RIP CD

Sample Screen using Nero Express to RIP CD

The Audio CD can be automatically identified with Gracenote MusicID. So called metadata such as title, genre, and track title are accessed by the Gracenote Media Database and associated to the tracks. That way you have audio files that are accurately and fully named after the encoding process.

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