Grip is a program that can do all of that.  It will encode to ogg or mp3
or whatever you want to use.  It can also dump to a MySQL database, and
rip on insert.

On Thu, 2002-08-01 at 08:37, SABowling@dstsystems.com wrote:
> For a while I've been throwing around the idea of having a computer play
> mp3's through different speakers placed throughout my house.  With the
> recent couple of topics mentioning a Jukebox I've decided to turn an old PC
> of mine into a Jukebox.
> 
> I'm planning to run mpg123 to play the MP3's and control it through a web
> front end (so I can use computers in any room to control the music
> playback).  In order to rip CD's, I've created a script that will perform
> different tasks:
> 
> 1)  Rip the Songs
> 2)  Retrieve CDDB Info
> 3)  Update the IDv3 tag in the MP3 with info from the CDDB.
> 4)  Save them and update a MySQL table with the info.
> 
> My question is this.  I would like to be able to simply insert a CD into
> the CD-ROM and have this process start automatically.  I have not had to
> deal with this type of automation in Linux before and was wondering if it
> was even possible...  Is there a way to start a process based off a CD
> being inserted?  Thoughts?
> 
> Thanks!
> Scott
> 
> 
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