KDE Dot News: Ripping Audio CDs Made Child’s Play

“Last week, Michael Matz contributed some code to the audiocd:IO
slave in KDE CVS to make ripping audio CDs child’s play. When you
browse an audio CD with this new code (using, for example,
‘audiocd:/’ in Konqueror), you will find two subdirectories: MP3
and Ogg Vorbis. Each subdirectory will list all the tracks on the
audio CD with the appropriate extension (.mp3 and .ogg). Each track
can then be dragged to any KDE drop location and be converted
automatically into the MP3 or OGG compressed formats. In addition,
if the track has a CDDB entry, the file is automatically named for
you and the .MP3/.OGG tags are set appropriately. The obligatory
screenies are linked in the text above. Expect rollout for KDE 2.2,
currently scheduled for beta release on April 2. How’s that for
simplicity? A more complete explanation from Michael is available
below.”

“Audiocd:/ creates a virtual view (or better multiple views) of
the content of audio CDs. These multiple views are collected in
virtual directories which all (besides one exception) are
subdirectories of the root directory. The actual set of views
available to the user depends on how kio_audiocd was compiled, and
if a network connection was possible (for the CDDB request). Most
of these views consist of one file for each audio track. The
difference inthe views is only the actual name of these files, and
the content, when those (up to then virtual) files are
read….”

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