[wplug] Ripping audio CDs in Linux?

[R.E.Coutch]

I use KAudioCreator.
It's part of the KDE and once configured is pretty much automatic.

It looks up the CD for title, track name, etc (from CDDB) and then rips 
encoded files with tag information.


On Wednesday 05 December 2007 22:38, Zach wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a rather large CD collection (over 500) and was thinking of
> ripping them and saving the audio files on an external USB hard disk.
> Does anyone know a very good ripping program for Linux (if command
> line can you give an example on how to rip one) and also a good
> tagging program. AFAIK there are databases that can be queried and the
> CD title, artist info, track titles, etc. can be applied when ripping
> instead of manually typing in all that info. I've never ripped CDs or
> tagged audio files before. I support open source and I want a high
> fidelity audio file (something a bit better than typical MP3) so I was
> thinking OGG or FLAC. I'm using Debian testing release with 2.6.18
> kernel and use ALSA for sound. I usually listen to CDs using xmms.
> Just curious what does everyone use in Linux to hear their music?
>
> Zach
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