I just use the one built into Rythmbox, since I let that manage all of my music. Ubuntu's got some pretty sane and effective defaults...I went with those in most cases for things, until it didn't work. (Why fix what ain't broke?) Keith On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 1:38 AM, Mike Miller <mbmiller at taxa.epi.umn.edu> wrote: > Now that I'm trying to do everything in Ubuntu, I'm wondering about CD > rippers/encoders. What have you found to be the best CD rippers/encoders > for GNU/Linux? Until now, I have been using WinXP with CDex for that > purpose and it has performed well. There seems to be a GNU/Linux clone of > CDex called LCDex: > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/lcdex/ > > But it is listed as pre-alpha and inactive, so I doubt it is a good > choice. For me the best option might have a command-line interface, but a > GUI is good too. > > Wikipedia lists five rippers for "BSD and Linux": > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD_ripper#BSD_and_Linux > > Asunder: http://littlesvr.ca/asunder/ > Brasero: http://projects.gnome.org/brasero/ > Grip: http://nostatic.org/grip/ > K3B: http://www.k3b.org/ > Sound Juicer: http://burtonini.com/blog/computers/sound-juicer > > I also ran across Rubyripper, which sounds quite intriguing: > > http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Rubyripper > > But I have to think that it must be slowed down significantly by all the care > that it puts into error correction. It uses "cdparanoia"... > > http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Cdparanoia > > ...as do at least Asunder and Grip, and perhaps others. I appreciate the > effort made by these programs to get the right answer. I just wonder if they > are slow. I'll probably have to test a couple of them. > > A friend who uses BSD recommended cdrecord, which comes with cdda2wav for > ripping. "It is not too bad," he wrote, "although its CLI is quite > detailed and takes some getting used to." > > Thanks in advance for any tips. > > Best, > Mike > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >