I've used Grip but when on cli I prefer cdmp3 which is written in Perl. I don't think it supports FLAC but it does support mp3 and ogg (which I like). It is easy to use and supports the CDDB stuff. I wrote some shell aliases for ripping/sorting/encoding my CDs in various ways. http://www.roland-riegel.de/cdmp3/ http://freshmeat.net/projects/cdmp3/ -----Original Message----- From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org [mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org] On Behalf Of Mike Miller Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 1:38 AM To: TCLUG List Subject: [tclug-list] CD rippers/encoders for GNU/Linux 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