Sourcetrunk (Episode 014)
This episode will talk about recording every desktop for sharing with Krut, ripping your music CD's on a windows box with BonkEnc and playing your favorite oggs and mp3s with the little Cog on OSX.
I. System Tools : Krut
Krut Computer Recorder allows you to record audio and video from your computer screen into .mov-files and .wav-files. It can be used to e.g. make instructional videos or record games. It could also be used to record streaming video and audio.
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sourceforge.net/projects/krut |
II. Multimedia Software : BonkEnc
BonkEnc is a CD ripper, audio encoder and converter for various formats. It can produce MP3, MP4/M4A, Ogg Vorbis, AAC, Bonk and FLAC files.
BonkEnc is available for free. However, the project relies on your support in order to push the development further.
BonkEnc makes it easy to convert your audio CDs to MP3 or Ogg Vorbis files which you can use in your hardware player or with your favorite audio software. The program supports the CDDB/freedb online CD database and CDText and automatically writes song information to ID3V2 or Vorbis comment tags.
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www.bonkenc.org |
III. The Little Extra : Cog
Cog is an audio player for Mac OS X written with Cocoa. It supports many popular file formats, including Ogg Vorbis, Flac, Musepack, Mp3, and Monkeys Audio.
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cogosx.sourceforge.net |
music from Chris Ayer on music.podshow.com
theme from Brand New Sin on music.podshow.com
beer on this episode : Leffe Blond 
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CDex
I'm pretty fond of CDex. It's the best open-source ripper I've found and it's very user friendly. I'll give BonkEnc a go though. It's just a pity Foobar and EAC are closed-source. :(
CDex
Hi,
CDex is not bad, I'm going to compare all the CD rippers by letting some badly scratched CD's loose on them, just to compare.
>It's just a pity Foobar and EAC are closed-source. :(
yes, but that's where open source alternatives come in ;)
thanks for the feedback,
Dimi.
CDex
I must certainly agree, cdex has been a wonderful tool for many years. Theres nothing bad about it as it uses lame or other encoders as the back end. It can rip to ogg and has a few surprises. For instance - drag & drop a file, say *.ogg into the main window and it will re-encode to mp3 and vice versa but one would never guess as it has a "button/menu" interface. Have been using it since maybe '98. Great show as usual. Sebastian M.
CDex
Hi,
well, here's the review, CDex really is nice to work with.
thanks,
Dimi.
CDex
Hi Sebastian,
I didn't know CDex was that old ... I really have to make some time to do that comparison between different rippers.
thanks for the feedback.
Dimi.
VLC runs everything
I install VLC by default on all my OSes and is great for playback of ogg vorbis
VLC & Ogg
Hi,
you're right, VLC supports OGG ! I only used VLC for video (until now that is.)
But still, I like the little Cog, I've gotten fond of it ;)
thanks for the feedback.
Dimi.
Thanks for review cog
My favourite player, I dumped iTunes for cog. Great except itunes manages my music collection into neat folders. I have todo this in finder myself now. Still flac is worth it.
Oh, Max is lovely open source cd ripper!
Cog
Hi,
glad you like Cog !
yes, if you want to keep things organized then you would need a real audio database client like Amarok.
Max ?! checking it out as we speak ;)
thanks for the feedback.
Dimi.
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Cog is really great, nice on my really old powermac as well. At this moment I'm trying to compile Amarok. Although I find X11 ports a bit off putting. Apparently 2.0 will be multiplatform.
Tried songbird as well, but found it overwhelming slow, and a little too feature packed!
Finally I got my thingers crossed for; http://sbooth.org/Play/
Has a nice Cocoa interface, but doesn't do the library management thing, yet.
Cog
Hi,
I hope you are using Fink on your OSX (like I do) it's really easy to install amarok ( 'fink install amarok' ).
http://sbooth.org/Play
yep, looks promising, I'll keep an eye on that one.
thanks !
Dimi.