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Jasmine Lemaitre

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Aug 3, 2024, 5:15:49 PM8/3/24

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I'm shocked at how slow Sound Juicer rips audio CD's. My machine is an Intel i7 with 4Gb RAM, so I thought that ripping would take just a couple of minutes. But the program takes it's time and lasts about 20' for each CD.

The DVD is a Super Multi DL Drive. I guess it's faster than single speed. No serious errors on the command line after the extraction starts. Before that, gtk errors and glib errors. Running it from the command line is much faster.

Now, if a CD has 700Mb max, wouldn't it be possible to read the smallest song (in bytes) into memory, start processing that with one thread, read the next smallest song into memory and spawn the next process, etc?

The reason extraction is so slow is because sound juicer uses cdparanoia, which was designed to read the disc multiple times in a very low level mode and perform complex software error correction to work around bugs that many drives commonly had, and any physical scratches on the disc. I think these days most drives manage to do it correctly themselves, and so cdparanoia is no longer really needed. There appears to be an open bug to have sound juicer stop using cdparanoia here:

DVD write speed is a function of the drive and of the actual media. The media write speed for that particular media will be on the packaging, you can't do better than that. The achieved write speed is usually reported by the writing software so you can see if the advertised speed is achieved. Your drive is likely SATA which is capable of speeds faster than your drive can handle.

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My audio interface hardware is a Focusrite Scarlett 2i2. My PC has an Intel Core i7-3770, 16 GB of RAM, and a mostly-empty 1TB SATA hard drive (spinning magnetic). CPU utilization is typically very low.

I have a degree in ECE, and I write embedded software for a living. I have broad general knowledge of A/D conversion, audio sampling, FLAC, etc., but I lack detailed knowledge of how Audacity, Sound Juicer, RhythmBox, Linux sound drivers, etc. all work down in the nitty-gritty details.

So, it seems to me that SoundJuicer produces FLAC files that are somehow different from the FLAC files produced by Audacity. And somehow when I let RhythmBox play all these files in shuffle mode (or even entire albums sequentially), there are loud clicks/pops when changing between files generated from Audacity vs SoundJuicer.

There are a plethora of programs that can rip audio CDs on Linux, but very few are as simple as Sound Juicer. Sound Juicer is a GUI front-end for the command line only tool cdparanoia, but it adds quite features that make it worth a look. Install Sound Juicer Sound Juicer is not installed by default in a lot of distributions so it may need to be installed from the distribution's software repository. Start by opening up the software manager that comes with your distribution. Note: The screenshots show mintInstall that comes with Linux Mint 9. Search for "sound-juicer" in the software manager. For some reason searching for "juicer" and "sound juicer" did not bring up any results so make sure you include the dash when searching.

Launch Sound Juicer Once the software is installed go back to the menu to open the program. In Linux Mint and Ubuntu, Sound Juicer shows up as "Audio CD Extractor". Search for it in the mintMenu or in Ubuntu find it under Applications -> Sound & Video.

Sound Juicer connects to MusicBrainz to determine the CD information. If the CD cannot be found in the MusicBrainz database you will have the option to fill in the CD information manually and submit the album for future users.

Customizing CD Rips If you want to use a different CD drive, change the music folder or naming of your ripped music, or change what format the music is ripped in, click on Edit -> Preferences.

In Ubuntu, to enable the MP3 and AAC ripping you will need to install the restricted-extras package from the Synaptic Package Manager or it can be installed directly from FireFox using the Ubuntu community documentation. Highlight one of the profiles and click "Edit" to change the name, description, and GStreamer command that runs to rip the music.