I just went through this the other day when I found that kaudiocreator was not packaged for Ubuntu 8.10. I found abcde to be an excellent CLI ripper. http://lly.org/~rcw/abcde/page/ Bret. On Tuesday 30 December 2008 01:38:15 am Mike Miller 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 -- Bret Baptist Senior Network Administrator bbaptist at iexposure.com Internet Exposure, Inc. http://www.iexposure.com (612) 676-1946 x17 Providing Internet Services since 1995 Web Development ~ Search Engine Marketing ~ Web Analytics Network Security ~ On Demand Tech Support ~ E-Mail Marketing