What's with the GNOME CD player?

[MR ZenWiz]

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 10:04 PM, Basil Chupin <blchupin at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> On 05/01/2011 16:41, MR ZenWiz wrote:
>>
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>> goobox
>
> Never heard of it :-) .
>
> But now that I looked I see that it is not supported by Canonical.
>
I'm not sure how or why I got this one in particular.  It seems like
the "same" as the one that came with CentOS (for Gnome 2.16).

I mainly got it because it had a nice interface for ripping CDs.  Now
it's becoming more of a pain.

> I have never, ever, has any problems with xine. vlc, yes but I now have vlc
> under control (have to use w_scan to get the tv stations for both xine and
> vlc and then there is no need to look back :-) ).
>
What do you use to rip CDs, or do you?  One thing I like(d) about
goobox is that it rips to flac format - smaller than wavs but full
quality (which is nice if I decide I want to modify something, like
change the volume or cut out intros or codas I want separate, or piece
together multiple tracks that should not have been separate in the
first place).