[H-GEN] Ripping CD's

[Stuart Longland]

Harry Phillips wrote:
  > Michael Anthon wrote:
> 
>>
>>> Does anyone know of a decent CD ripping program that I can run on Linux?
>>>
>> grip works a treat
>>
> 
> Thanks, it does, it's even has a player. I won't use it for that but 
> it's there. I am guessing from the 'g' part of grip it is designed for 
> Gnome? However I use KDE and it humms along nicely.
> 
> A neat feature is that it automatically looks up CDDB, another is that 
> once it has finished ripping a CD to WAV it ejects the CD. You can then 
>  start ripping the second CD to WAV while the first is still being encoded.
> 

I've used KAudioCreator (which came as part of the KDE 3.2 suite on 
Gentoo Linux 1.4) and have found it to be very reliable.  I first used 
it to rip a copy-protected CD to MP3[1] and had no problems doing so.

 From what you have described, it looks like it'll do what you want.

http://www.csh.rit.edu/~benjamin/programs/program.php?program=KAudioCreator

Footnotes:
	1. Yes, I realise I really should use OGG, however I've been using MP3 
for years now, I've got some 5GB of MP3s (mostly ripped from CDs and 
vinyl records) -- re-ripping to OGG would be a pain.[2]

	2. I'm aware of software that converts MP3s to OGG, however in doing 
so, I'd loose about 1GB of disk space -- for no benefit in quality.  (I 
realise OGG is better -- but the quality will only drop since your going 
from one lossy format to another)
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