Rip your CDs with KIO and amaroK

Sunday, April 23. 2006

Rip your CDs with KIO and amaroK

Yesterday I commited some code to the Collection Browser that allows it to accept URLs with the audiocd:/ protocol. If your machine supports this (the audiocd:/ kioslave is probably in the kdemultimedia package), you can rip by doing the following;

Open KControl. Go to Sound and Multimedia->Audio CDs. Configure your ripping preferences.
Open Konqueror. Go to audiocd:/
Go into whatever folder you want your tracks encoded as, i.e. Ogg Vorbis will contain Vorbis "files" that you can select.
Drag these tracks to amaroK's Collection Browser.

amaroK will perform a KIO copy, which will result in a seamless rip of the track and import of the track into your collection. Easy as pie, and using KDE's built-in capabilities to boot!

Posted by Jeff Mitchell in jefferai at 23:49 | Comments (12) | Trackbacks (0)

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sheer brilliance!

#1 fish on 2006-04-24 11:22 (Reply)

Nah, thank the author of the audiocd:/ kioslave and the work of the amaroK devs before me. This was really just a simple hack to enable this to work.

After I made this public I noticed some other developers talking about how we could integrate it into the UI so that it's a little more intuitive (and eventually more of a one-click button, similar to iTunes, to import a CD's tracks to your library; also maybe have an option in the KDE dialog box that pops up when you insert an audiocd that says "Import to my amaroK Collection"). My hack here essentially shows that the functionality is there without much further effort on the ripping side. The trick will be to make it nice in the UI.

#1.1 jefferai on 2006-04-24 13:35 (Reply)

Be sure to have an option to disable the pop-up.

The pop-up every time I plug-in my iPod is quite annoying.

I like the idea of a one-click rip & import btw. I now need to browser to audiocd:/, then copy/paste and wait for amaroK to import it. Just clicking in a button in amaroK would be awesome!

#1.1.1 Thomas on 2006-04-26 10:43 (Reply)

I'm not sure which pop-up you're talking about. It sounds like you're talking about the KDE MediaManager pop, which has nothing to do with amaroK.

#1.1.1.1 jefferai on 2006-04-26 14:30 (Reply)

Hehe, I see now you can't edit your comments here, too bad. I had a little idea pop into my head. Why not a feature of ripping the tracks while playing? Imagine you drag and drop the 'files'/tracks into amaroK (or do that in any other way) and start playing the tracks. While they are being played, they are ripped too. Not sure if this is possible with audiocd:/ KIO though.

#1.1.2 Thomas on 2006-04-26 10:45 (Reply)

Not possible AFAIK, however it is conceivable that you could set it so that when the first track is done being ripped, it begins playing that (ripped/encoded) track, with ripping continuing in the background (and the other tracks being added to the playlist as well).

#1.1.2.1 jefferai on 2006-04-26 14:32 (Reply)

Yeah, but where would the new files be placed? Would Amarok create a new directory, and if so - where and how it would be named?

#2 Ilya on 2006-04-24 12:18 (Reply)

Dropping the tracks in the Collection Browser opens up the same Import dialog that pops up when you drag normal tracks (i.e. non audiocd:/ tracks) there fron Konqueror. If you've never used that feature before, try it -- it's neat. Essentially I exntended this to allow urls using the audiocd protocol to be imported as well, making the ripping seamless.

It does take a bit though...so don't think amaroK has frozen!

#2.1 jefferai on 2006-04-24 13:32 (Reply)

It seems that the ripping process is slower than having konqueror open on audiocd:/MP3 and copy files somewhere on your disk. Is it possible?

#2.1.1 Gianpaolo Racca on 2007-01-25 14:56 (Reply)

No, it should be the same. Both use the kioslave to do the work, so it shouldn't matter which application invokes the kioslave. The only thing I can think of is that there is a very slight overhead of then scanning the song and adding to the collection. But you shouldn't really notice that too much...

#2.1.1.1 jefferai on 2007-01-26 00:40 (Reply)

I've tried a few times without success to compile amarok from source on macosx, downloaded over a gig of dependencies too. Does anyone out there have a binary I could have? These seems to be a great demand for one. I'm desperately looking for a mac alternative to foobar2k and amarok looks like the only similar program

#3 cornelius-3 on 2006-04-25 23:01 (Reply)

Use the Fink package. It works for several of the developers.

#3.1 jefferai on 2006-04-26 14:33 (Reply)

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