Tim here again. Following up on my previous response, using "abcde" from the command-line could hardly be easier. I edited my ~/.abcde.conf file to contain CDDBMETHOD=cddb,musicbrainz OUTPUTTYPE=mp3 MAXPROCS=2 EJECTCD=y The CDDBMETHOD checks both "CDDB" and "MusicBrainz" for the track info. If the first fails to find the CD, it falls back to the latter. It still gives you the opportunity to pull up the information in your $EDITOR to tweak the information which is nice. The OUTPUTTYPE says I want MP3 rather than the default OGG. You can set it to a comma-separated list of extensions to produce more than one. YMMV, but I have some players that know MP3 and not OGG, and now that MP3 is out of patent restriction, I'm good with MP3 for most stuff. The "MAXPROCS" is the number of CPUs in my machine to speed things up. It defaults to one, so a multi-core/multi-processor system should be fine, but you can bump it up to the number of cores/CPUs you have if you value speed. Finally, I like the EJECTCD=y to eject the CD when it's done reading the data off as an audible "I'm about done" making it easy for me to load my next CD. There are a *lot* of other options you can configure in that file. You should be able to cp /etc/abcde.conf ~/.abcde.conf and then modify it if you want to explore any of the other options, but those worked for me. I've ripped about half my classical music selection since yesterday and hope to finish the rest today. -tim _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list