CD ripping options - where to set, or just none available?

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Hi All,
I am using Volumio for quite some time now, but by now ripped my CDs on a notebook. Now wanted to start doing that using my Volumio device. In essence this works well, but I am wondering where I can set some basic options: output format, audio quality, naming format etc.

Or is there just no such options? If that is the case, Volumio Premium is no valid option for me at least…

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Hi Michael,
I do not think there are any options for ripping CD as Volumio is doing bit perfect copy of the original format ensuring you to keep the highest original quality. If you want to convert it further, you need to load the rip in some sound file conversion software and save with the file format and quality you want.

In a nutshell, Volumio acts only as a bit perfect ripping soft, not a conversion software.

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Hi - thanks for this. I was not thinking of options in terms of audio formats etc., but about e.g. naming output files. In my case, I have a huge library already, where e.g. each album has its own directory underneath an “artist” directory. Now what Volumio does is creating artist-album directories that sit in parallel instead. I would like to change that.

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I suggest using EAC, Exact Audio Copy for Windows, instead of Volumio.
It extracts, converts, and tags in one step and in a better way

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Hi RommelTex, thanks for the suggestion, but that is - sorry to say - completely missing my point. I am well aware of many such tools myself - as said, I do have a huge audio library already, that obviously I did build up over years and certainly not using Volumio.

But now my case is that I do intentionally want to leverage Volumio for CD ripping. The reason is that I did build a complete music server / streamer including a CD-drive, so now the Volumio software needs to handle ripping. Which it does, but not the way I would like it to.

Thus, my question how e.g. the names of output files and folders could be defined.

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@michael.maier

Need to be honest I’ve never played with this, so it’s pure theoretical, but…

on location /myvolumio/plugins/music_service/cd_controller/configurations is a file called abcdecddb.conf.
On row 414 and 417 is a line where you can set your output format.

#OUTPUTFORMAT='${ARTISTFILE}-${ALBUMFILE}/${TRACKNUM}.${TRACKFILE}'
# Like OUTPUTFORMAT but for Various Artists discs.
#VAOUTPUTFORMAT='Various Artists-${ALBUMFILE}/${TRACKNUM}.${ARTISTFILE}-${TRACKFILE}-${TRACKNUM}'

The top of the file states that you can modify this file but need to place it in your home folder.

# If you wish to override these system-wide settings, create your own
# .abcde.conf file in your home directory.
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Abcde is a great encoder (literally"A Better CD Encoder". UNIX people love an acronym). I used it regularly at the height of my Linux explorations a few years ago. It’s designed so you can set up everything as you want in the config file, and then basically put a cd in and tell it to go!
Their website is FrontPage - AbcdeWiki.

I also have never played with it in Volumio.

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now this is exactly what I wanted! thanks big time! and so easy to use, perfect!

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Hi again,

I am struggling a bit with where to put this conf file to.

  1. it seems the original file in /myvolumio/plugins/music_service/cd_controller/configurations is actually used, since some of the options in there are in fact uncommented (unlike to what is said in the header). However, whatever I change in there has no effect
  2. so I tried putting it in /home/volumio; same thing, no effects at all

any idea where to put it to?