audio disk ripping

[Linux for blind general discussion]

In addition to being on your own for naming and tagging files if abcde
doesn't find a CDDB entry(It's default to using Track followed by the
track number for titles and Unknown Artist Unknown Album for Artist
and Album), my experience ripping Japanese and Chinese music CDs is
that often none of the CDDB entries will be Romanized, and I would
assume the same holds for music in other languages that don't use the
Roman Alphabet, which can be an issue for sighted users given how many
terminal emulators don't support unicode and most graphical
applications need foreign fonts installed to properly display unicode,
but can be made worse with  many screen readers not knowing how to
read non-Roman text properly.

Also, having used abcde to rip Audiobooks, I think it worth noting
many Books-on-CD don't split the content to one chapter per track,
will sometimes split a chapter across disc boundaries even when none
of the chapters are long enough to mandate such, and if abcde has the
capability to selectively merge tracks or to resume numbering from
where a previous disc left off, I don't know how to access such
options. I've run into similar issues ripping AudioCD releases of
Radio Dramas. So, if you're only ripping music, abcde will usually
take you from CD to files ready to be loaded on your digital media
player of choice, but other kinds of audio programming are likely to
mandate more post-processing.

-- 
Sincerely,

Jeffery Wright
Bachelor of Computer Science
President Emeritus, Nu Nu Chapter, Phi Theta Kappa.