I am running Ubuntu Feisty as my main Desktop (single boot). The other day my wife got a cd that she wanted ripped into our music folder as an mp3. I had not ripped a cd on Linux before. I knew there had to be some software preloaded on Ubuntu to do this, but I had just never had to do it before. I found a program called Sound Juicer CD Extractor. It works wonderfully. You just put a cd in the drive and Sound Juicer detects which drive it is in and that it is a music cd. It lists all music files on the cd and they are all automatically checked for ripping.

All I had to do was tell this program to rip and it was off. There is a preference option in the menu where you select your music folder (otherwise I think it defaults to your home folder). The whole cd with about 12 songs was done in 3 minutes. All of the music I have ripped since that day sounds great. This tool is made for Gnome, but I am sure KDE offers something in the same line. Who said that Linux was difficult? I am still amazed that I can burn a cd from the command line…

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Filed under: Entertainment, Linux, Music, Open Source by Philip Williams