On 12/30/2008 01:38 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 use Sound Juicer. It's a simple no-nonsense program that works.