I have converted my CD collection to ogg using 'grip' to rip and 'xmms' to play - seems great! If you like verbose tags and filenames though be sure to edit the default settings in 'grip' - the default are sparce, to be polite. Madison Taavi Burns wrote:

On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 11:42:43AM -0500, Lloyd Budd wrote:

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What is an efficient way to achieve the ripping (+tag) under Linux?

IIRC grip will snag disc info from freedb and rip with your choice of filename and filled out ID3 tag, direclty to your favourite format for which there exists a CLI encoder.

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Which Linux music players have the most complete play list functionality?

I don't know. iTunes has spoilt me. ;)

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[1] feel free to request this feature or provide other feedback regarding iTunes ;-) http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunes.html

NB: probably the best feature request would be to allow iTunes to encode using any QuickTime codec available on the system. This will make supporting any number of codecs very simple (not just OGG, but FLAC, or whatever else tickles your fancy).

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