Hi, can anyone tell me if there's versions of LAME and EAC for 'nix systems? Thanks.

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Yes, under linux there's LAME and cdparanoia (but not EAC unfortunately). LAME is the same as you know, and cdparanoia follows a similar goal as EAC -- perhaps not so refined but probably good enough for most people. There's some information on this page: http://www.xiph.org/paranoia/.

What *nix system do you have?

It's actually for a friend on the AMD support forum who was asking about CD rippers, etc. I mentioned LAME and EAC and also wrote a little guide on there. I'm not sure of his *nix system, but I'll let him know about your post here and try to find out.

Thanks for the help, NumLOCK.

Grip is probably the closest equivalent to EAC on *nix. It uses cdparanoia for ripping (which provides accurate rips on most drives) and has a nice gnome frontend with support for CDDB, encoding and tagging.

If your friend likes the command line then ABCDE will provide him with a lifetime of ripping goodness. It supports MP3 (via LAME), Vorbis and FLAC as well as CDDB and tagging. It also uses cdparanoia for ripping. Abcde is what I use and it hasn't given me a moment's hassels in years.

LAME, of course, remains the choice MP3 encoder. Your friend can download the source, do a simple configure and make and have a lame compile for his system. If he runs Debian Linux then there are nice packages on rarewares.

cdda2wav uses libcdparanoia now too...

so almost any frontend is able to give the same results

for GUIs: grip, k3b (from cvs)


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EAC runs very well under wine too. I've done quite a few (simple) tests, and have never found any differences in error reporting or handling compared to when it's used in windows. I can really recommend it!

Edit: To be more precise, it's working so well it's like using it under windows. I haven't found anything that doesn't work. Extractions under wine have been bit-identical to those made in windows, clean rips as well as problem records. No difference in speed or mechanical sounds from the drive if re-reading scratched areas. So I guess this answer the question(?) - yes, there is a version of EAC for Linux. Just use the normal one... Haven't tried the accurate rip functionality though, as it wasn't there when I last tried EAC under wine. I've used it with Musepack encoder 1.14 and lame 3.90.3. For replaygain and additional tagging I've used fb2k, also under wine. foobar doesn't run that clean - most stuff is functional, but for example I didn't get any other encoding than vorbis to work.

Mh... Do I remember it right... wasn't CDParanoia exactly what we Windows Users missed until there was EAC (and doesn't Andre mentioned it to be "his" inspiration for EAC?) ? So if that proggy was further developed from that time, shouldn't it be exactly what you search for (well, maybe the FrontEnd Part... :sigh:) ?

cdparanoia hasn't been developed for years and years...

it was the eventual base of CDex, too, btw (the ripping implementation)


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It would rock to have a Linux port of EAC.. Well who knows?