Kubuntu useless for ripping CDs

[Grumpy_Penguin]

On Sunday 28 January 2007 07:37, Donn wrote:
> > > I've never had trouble ripping a music CD to disk. Not once ever and
> > > that's on old 386 PCs with questionable CD drives under Fedora right up
> > > to Kubuntu on an AMD. I really think your problem is the CD in
> > > question. Perhaps it's dirty?
> > > Can one "rip" songs from an iso? Perhaps you can make an iso of your
> > > entire CD and then try rip that? Whoa -- brain on fire ... must douse
> > > it
> >
> > Do you have grip installed?
>
> locate grip gives me "grip.ko" in kernel drivers joystick (which seems off
> base :) ), so I would say no.
Grip or Ripper-X will do the job
http://sourceforge.net/projects/grip/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ripperx/
if you want MP3 capability's then you will also need Lame
http://lame.sourceforge.net/index.php
Audacity is also nice for editing 
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
you can probably get all of them from the multiverse repository
>
> /d