I would absolutely recommend a CD ripper using MB’s data over one that doesn’t! 100%! But these are also the official MusicBrainz forums, so people here might be a bit biased in that question.
If you mean if we’d recommend a specific ripper, I’m personally (on my off-time, not related to my MetaBrainz employment) slightly involved with whipper which is a fork/successor of morituri (which I was also slightly involved with—R.I.P. rip). The ripping of those is modelled after EAC/Exact Audio Copy, which by many is considered the gold standard of CD ripping tools, and the morituri author’s article “The Art of the Rip”.
Try using the AUR picard-git package. Picard 1.3.2 is 2+ years outdated. 1.4 will be released on February 14th though. See also:
If it still doesn’t work with picard-git, let’s XFUT to a new topic and I’ll try and debug it with you. (Or you can come join us on IRC!) I’m an Arch user, and several other MB contributors also use Arch.
Hi!
Tried it out with the new client, but it still doesn’t work. The button for submitting discid is grey, even if the default cd-rom drive for lookups (/dev/sr0) is right.