Ripping CDs

[Reinhold Rumberger]

Am Montag 30 November 2009 schrieb O. Sinclair:
> Mark Greenwood wrote:
> > There shouldn't be any need to use K3B any more. Just open the
> > CD in Dolphin and you'll see directories for PCM, OGG, and MP3.
> > Open those directories and just copy the files somewhere. The
> > quality of the ripping is controlled by the Audio CDs section of
> > the KDE control panel thing.

<snip>

> 
> I have real problems with this. I tried to rip audio-cd during the
> weekend (was offline so no support available) and when I open an
>  audiocd in Dolphin I do not see any MP3 folder. An OGG  and FLAC
>  but no MP3.

Do you have lame and/or kubuntu-restricted-extras installed? It works 
here, so you're probably missing some library.

> Trying to rip using Amarok, K3B or SoundKonverter failed - none of
>  them seem to understand where the files reside though they list
>  them. I can not browse to the CD from shell any longer as going
>  to /media/cdrom or cdrom0 gives no output. Apparently, for
>  whatever reason, audio cd's are not mounted normally but via
>  /dev/sr0 or something and only the audiocd slave can "see" it. If
>  that is an improvement I fail to see or understand how.

Audio CDs don't contain files or a file system and therefore can't be 
mounted like data CDs. I'm not sure, but there might be a fuse-based 
method of mounting an audio CD.

> I had to manually copy the wav files to a folder and then convert
>  them.

That's pretty much what the audiocd kioslave does...

> Anyone have an idea how I can sort this out so ripping (or copying
>  of mp3 folder...) can work again?

Make sure that you have all the necessary libs installed? I'm quite 
certain that google will be able to help you there.

  --Reinhold