No Way Know How

abcde - I couldn't figure out how to set all the settings in ~/.abcde.conf. Pain in the arse that NONE of the settings are activated by default. So I grabbed some other guy's config file (for mp3) from http://www.andrews-corner.org/abcde.html#mp3 and slapped that in. installed eyeD3 (whatever that is - a python script for the metadata?) and that's it. Stick the disc in, run abcde and let it do it's thing. Of course, I had already installed cdparanoia and lame.

I was pretty happy using CLI for navigation and file-y stuff when I was first recommended cdparanoia, but the prospect of using it to rip CDs seemed too perverse. I've just had another go, and it's super easy. cdparanoia -B is the key command. It'll rip all tracks from the current disc drive to the current working folder. then $ lame track01.cdda.wav to encode a track as mp3. To do this for all the tracks in the folder: $ for t in track{01..18}*.wav; do lame $t; done and then it's just a matter of rm *wav to get rid of those. Though should I maybe back up the wav files to an external hdd though? decisions. Oh, and here's where I go the straight answers above.