CD to MP3 conversion

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RubyRipper - FAIL

RubyRipper was recommended on the Ubuntu community documentation site. To install it, install dependencies:

sudo apt-get install cd-discid cdparanoia flac lame mp3gain normalize-audio ruby-gnome2 ruby vorbisgain

Get RubyRipper from http://linux.softpedia.com/progDownload/Rubyripper-Download-20741.html and follow the installation instructions for the format of your choice. I used the Debian package install, and it seemed to work fine.

RubyRipper then appeared in the Gnome menu under Applications -> Sound and Video. I tried it with a couple of CDs and specifying different output formats with absolutely no success. As far as I can tell, RubyRipper doesn't even begin to work.

Grip

Grip was also mentioned on the community documentation site. The project home page at http://nostatic.org/grip/grip-download.shtml does not mention an Ubuntu repository package, but when I ran

sudo apt-get install grip

it installed fine and Grip then appeared in the Gnome menu under Applications -> Sound and Video.

On starting Grip, it warned me that it was a development version and not a stable version. I tried it with the same CDs as I had used to test RubyRipper. Worked fine, no problems.

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