Ripping CDs

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 20:48:27 +0100, Roland Hammerle wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> I tried to rip a CD using GNOME's sound juicer. After having to install 
> not only sound juicer but also cdparanoia (before building 
> gstreamer-plugins) it still didn't work.
> 
> After some testing I figured out that some devices did not have the 
> proper permissions. It seems that at least the following devices have to 
> be changed so that a normal user can rip CDs:
> 
> /dev/pass*
> /dev/cd*
> /dev/xpt*
> 
> I set them all to 666 (sound juicer opens them with RW flag set, so I 
> think they must be writable as well even though they are just CDs).
> 
> What is the proper way of doing this, though? Are all devices needed and 
> which permissions should they be set to?

http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#q15

Cheers,
Mezz

> Thanks for your advice,
> Roland