Dvd

17 Nov 2023

Automatically backup optical discs on linux

Here is a short starting-point for developing a bash script that can be used to automate optical disc ripping. At least for music and application CDs as well as DVDs. Some other cli commands will need to be added to deal with bluerays or other formats.

abcde to rip CD music #

abcde is used to rip music CDs to various formats (my configuration is set to FLAC to preserve the raw quality but in a compressed format to save space.) This command will fail for DVDs.