Linux offers several excellent music players, including (but not limited to) XMMS, Zinf, noatun, amaroK, Juk, Rhythmbox, and Kaffeine. Most of these can play streaming Internet audio, compact discs, and best of all, digital audio files. With music stored as digital audio files, you can enjoy your music wherever and whenever you want to.
Linux offers several excellent music players, including (but not limited to) XMMS, Zinf, noatun, amaroK, Juk, Rhythmbox, and Kaffeine. Most of these can play streaming Internet audio, compact discs, and best of all, digital audio files. With music stored as digital audio files, you can enjoy your music wherever and whenever you want to.
If you don’t know how to convert CDs into audio files on Linux, this column is for you.
Rip with Grip
You can turn your CDs into digital audio files in two easy steps. First, “rip” the music files from your CD to your hard drive as WAV files. Next, convert the WAV files into OGG files.
For convenience, create a folder for all of the WAV files using a command like mkdir ~/music/wav. Next, if you don’t have Grip installed, get it from http://nostatic.org/grip. Open Grip, choose the “Config” tab, then “Rip,” and then “Ripper.”
For “Ripper,” choose “grip (cdparanoia),” and for “Rip file format,” enter ~/music/wav/%A_-_%d_-_%t_-_%n.wav. Next, choose the “Misc” tab under “Config,” and check Do not lowercase filenames. On the same tab, next to “Characters to not strip in filenames,” enter ‘”&-.
Choose the “Tracks” tab. Grip should have connected to the Internet and downloaded the titles of your CD and its songs. Check all of the boxes in the “Rip” column and then choose the “Rip” tab. Press the “Rip Only” button.
Immediately, Grip whirrs into action and starts creating files…
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