From: Ruby Baby <ruby@...>
Date: 2004-01-18T22:23:23+09:00
Subject: Re: is Ruby the right language for these projects?

> What about doing the conversions and
> burning?  If it's not done by some external command line tool that simply
> has to be controlled by the Ruby app, it's likely that you have to develop a
> C extension for the conversion / burning work to get the speed you need.

Sorry - to be clear:

I'm not going to write Yet Another CD Burner.

It's just going to download FLAC files (http://flac.sourceforge.net/)
then let the user convert them into Ogg (http://www.vorbis.com/) or MP3 using
the LAME mp3 converter (http://lame.sourceforge.net/).

For burning, I'll probably just let the user select tracks then make an audio
ISO image, for them to open in whatever CD burning app they want.