Sound Juicer is a.CD ripper tool that lets you extract the audio from audio CDs and convert it into a variety of audio formats your computer can understand and play. It can also look up the titles and artists of the tracks on your CD from the Internet using the freely available MusicBrainz service.
To launch Sound Juicer, click
.Figure 73 Sound Juicer
Insert an audio CD into your drive.
Click
.When you start Sound Juicer, it examines the CD in the currently selected drive and tries to locate information about its contents. It can match against things like the serial number and the length and positions of the tracks.
In the fields at the top of the dialog, type the artist and album name.
If the disk is a single, type the name of the artist and the title of the track. If the disc is by multiple artists, you can type Various or leave it blank. This information is placed in the extracted files so that the files can be easily catalogued and searched by music-playing software. Each track also has a title and artist field that can be set separately. This information is also encoded in the output files.
HINT: When you edit the disk
field, all the track fields are updated to reflect that. This saves you a lot of typing as most discs are by a single artist.To exclude tracks, deselect them in the Extract column.
Use the options on the
menu to select or deselect all the tracks at the same time.Click
to read the audio from the CD and save it to disk.By default, files are stored in the /album_artist/album_title directory in your home directory, but you can change this in the Preferences dialog.
Extracting a CD can take a long time, depending on the speed of your computer. By default, Sound Juicer compresses the audio at the same time it extracts it from the CD so that it takes up less space on disk.
The
button is useful if you change CDs but don't want to restart the program. Clicking this button causes Sound Juicer to update the list of tracks.The Preferences window lets you control which CD drive Sound Juicer uses (if you have more than one CD drive), where the extracted audio is placed, and which file format/codec is used for the extracted audio.
Figure 74 Sound Juicer Preferences Dialog
If you have multiple CD drives in your system, click the
drop-down list to select the drive to use by default. You can also browse for a directory to place the audio files in.The album artist/album title/01 - Rapture [Radio Edit].ogg.
section lets you control how the audio files are laid out in your chosen directory. For example, in the default setup, the first track of your CD might be extracted to ~ /controls whether the filename should be made safe for the command line. This involves removing characters such as / \ * and ?. It's a good idea to select this option.
The options in the
section let you select the file format you want to save the audio files to: