[TriLUG] Audio (CD Ripping) docs?

[Brent Fox]

MP3 files are comparable in quality to the .wav files, except that they are 
smaller in size.  There are a number of excellent MP3 players for Linux, XMMS 
seems to be the most popular.  
You can use a program called Grip to rip files from an audio cd into MP3 
format.  Grip is pretty easy to use and works pretty well.  It is included 
with Red Hat Linux 7.2.  The Grip homepage is at http://www.nostatic.org/grip/

Hope this helps,
   Brent

On Saturday 03 November 2001 09:51 am, Tom Bryan wrote:
> I've looked around a bit, and I'm not sure where to start looking
> for audio info under Linux.  I only recently got a sound card that
> works under Linux.  I have played CDs with KDE's CD player, but I
> have never done anything with mpeg/mp3/wav/etc.  So, I'm at the
> point of "Hey, I heard that I can play music from my hard drive."
> A lot of the documentation I'm finding is for someone who already
> knows what he needs to do and now just wants Linux tools.  I know
> my goal (files on my hard drive that I can listed to while I work),
> but I don't even know the steps.  I've heard of MP3, but I'm not
> sure why I'd want MP3 instead of (for example) the .wav file that
> cdparanoia outputs.  Any suggestions on where to start?
>
> My motivation is that the new machine that IT put on my desk at work
> has a builtin soundcard and a huge hard drive.  I'd like to take in
> a bunch of music files so that I can have some good background noise
> while I work.  (Cube farms are terrible for maintaining hack mode.)
>
> Thanks,
> ---Tom
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