Command to Rip/Skip Specific Tracks

[asayler]

I'm trying to rip a CD that has one track that fails on a "Giving up on track N after 5 times" error, stopping the rip before even trying the remaining tracks. Is there a way to tell morituri to either continue trying tracks after a single track failure or to skip/rip only specific tracks? I couldn't find anything in the docs.

[wilbert-vb]

I would like that too. And in addition, I would like to avoid a rerip with skip option and instead of that just rip the remaining tracks. (rip cd rip --tracks=15,16,17)

[tlc]

This would be especially useful with problem CDs. Scenario: I have a 19 track CD with a scratch in track 15. Issue 1: I clean the CD and hope for a better rip, I don't want to rip tracks 1-14 again. Issue 2: I want to rip tracks 16-19 perfectly. Issue 3: I want to rip track 15 imperfectly.

[thomasvs]

On 11/30/2013 01:31 PM, tlc wrote:

This would be especially useful with problem CDs. Scenario: I have a 19 track CD with a scratch in track 15. Issue 1: I clean the CD and hope for a better rip, I don't want to rip tracks 1-14 again. Issue 2: I want to rip tracks 16-19 perfectly. Issue 3: I want to rip track 15 imperfectly.

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Issue 1 is not there - if the track is already ripped, it reuses that rip.

I'm still undecided about 2 and 3. The whole point of morituri is to not accidentally do issue 3. There are plenty of rippers out there that let you get a bad rip if that's what you really want.

T

[asayler]

Issue 3 may be less important, since you can turn to other rippers. But Issue 2 is a pretty big feature gap. Why should I have to give up on all the tracks on a cd after a single bad track?

Also, there is a 4th scenario:

I only want to rip a single track from a CD since I don't care about the rest.

EAC has good support for ripping only specific tracks and for skipping tracks with issues while ripping all remaining tracks, and I take advantage of it a lot. It would be cool if morituri could do that too.

[Freso]

I agree that issue 3 is not something I'd necessarily want morituri to do; but issue 2 is something I'd want it to be able to manage somehow.

[tlc]

My Issue 1 must be due to the fact that I run 'rip' in a script that makes a temp dir for each album (because it's run automatically when I insert a CD). I guess rip looks in the current dir (or WORKING) for a partial rip?

Since 1 exists, 2 should be straightforward.

I agree that issue 3 should not be handled inadvertently. But the ability to do it with an explicit option for a damaged CD would be better than using another tool and relying on a lot of hand work to make sure the tags are consistent. I'd prefer to only have one CD ripper utility, not two -- one for perfect discs and one for imperfect ones. Maybe an 'accept-imperfect' option that only works with a single track rip, just to make it unappealing.

[tlc]

"...a lot of hand work to make sure the tags are consistent" And the .cue and .m3u files.