[Gllug] audio cd tracks into mp3 files

[Caroline Ford]

2009/4/21 James Laver <james.laver at gmail.com>:
> On 21 Apr 2009, at 21:29, Peter Corlett wrote:
>
>> It's also free of support from the vast majority of players, notably
>> the iPod, which is synonymous with "MP3 player" these days.
>>
>> Sometimes you have to be pragmatic about these things and use a codec
>> that is supported. Everything worth its salt can play MP3, so it's the
>> de facto standard.
>
> "Please encode it into something noone can play" is always a most
> convincing argument. Can we yet call it a form of DRM?
>
> My vote is for sound juicer, which will encode directly with LAME. Or
> if you don't want it on your ipod/similar, then it will do ogg too.
>
> Rhythmbox does not (last I checked) rip, but uses sound juicer to do
> the ripping. I am not currently a desktop linux user, so I can't
> confirm that is still the case.


Rhythmbox is the default audio ripper (and player) in Ubuntu. However
it cannot rip individual tracks, just whole CDs.

Caroline
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