good CD ripper for Kubuntu...

[Mark A. Taff]

On Thursday 13 July 2006 20:06, Ron wrote:
> For some reason, I just had problems ripping that one CD.  I went into
> windows and ripped it fine.  Everything else has been ripping great in KDE.
>  Perhaps someone could tell me how to change the ripping quality for mp3's
> in KAudioCreator?  I have looked all over for a place to do it to no avail.
>  It seems to rip in 192, which is nearly CD quality, but I would like to
> play around with the quality a bit.  Thanks for the help.

Please don't top-post--it makes life difficult for us.  Thanks.

192kbps is *far* from cd quality.  CD quality, when losslessly compressed like 
flac is in the ballpark of 650kbps to 900kbps.  Hard drive space is cheap, 
why not just rip to flac?

As for the quality, `man lame` then use that info to set the quality for mp3 
encoding in KAudioCreator's encoder->configure dialog.

HTH,

Mark