Nero(n) burning ROM(e)
Later K3B.
Oh my god, how could I not have seen that. Now the icon makes sense too.
I had this kind of revelation like 2days ago when I woke up to go to the toilet, drink some water and sleep again. I don’t even know exactly why this thought came to me, it was a big discovery. Wanted to make a showerthought or til post, but never made. What a cool fun fact.
(Also it’s even more amazing the fact that someone made a post about cd rippers here (on an already obscure platform) and both you and I read this post. Wow.)
Edit: I recently found K3B as I’m in the process of moving to NixOS from win10. Seems like a good program.
Didn’t Nero have this on-the-fly (as if flies could burn anything) copying or am I confusing DVD and audio here?
Yes, I remember this. But if the dvd wasn’t closed properly it would have read issues on other computers.
Something about a Sheep? I don’t remember its name. Just the logo was supposed to be Dolly the Sheep (the one that was cloned).
Fooobar2000
Still have so many flac files from that.
Foob is the best audio player/tagger/ripper/converter ever
Alcohol 120%
Nice, that’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time!
Windows Media Player did the job for me.
Same until I got an MP3 player and it didn’t know what the fuck a .wma file was. Had to re-rip them to a proper format.
Same. I was a kid. I would get CDs from the library and fill my crappy MP3 player from the files extracted from WMP. My CD collection was mostly burned library CDs. Before my parents got a PC that could burn, I would go to the neighbor’s house and get their dad to do it for me. Simpler times.
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I think I just used the ripper in MusicMatch Jukebox that came with my computer. It was only the “shareware” version, so I was limited to 96 kbps.
I still have many of those in my collection. When I throw on the actual CD or hear it in a higher/lossless format, they sound “wrong” because I’m still so used to the crappy 96kbps rips I had with me on my MP3 player for years.
On the plus side, those smaller files let me fit several more songs onto my 64 MB MP3 player from 2001 or so (it used a parallel port to transfer lol)
Winamp
KAudio…something. It was a KDE tool that could rip and encode in parallel.
i remember acidrip. i remember it was a gtk program, written in some interpreted language: perl or python.
cdparanoia. Still do.
Every time I think back I picture Winamp. And sure enough I looked it up and Winamp could rip tracks and the UI is exactly what I remember
So: Winamp
Whoa. Blast from the past.
Tracker or cdparanoia. IIRC cdparanoia was more reliable.
