Lee Revell wrote: > Do all of these apps support exact bit-for-bit extraction (like EAC on > Windows)? IOW, can I rip the same CD on several different machines and > have the MD5 sums of the resulting .wavs match? As long as they use cdparanoia as backend, yes. cdparanoia was written by the author of the Vorbis codec, and does a job as good as, or better than, EAC. -- Nicola Larosa - http://www.tekNico.net/ Unwilful untruth is just ignorance and is to be overcome, like a river in one's path or a sore muscle. Wilful untruth is the telling of lies; it should be fought with passion and without mercy, ripped flesh from bones and left to rot in the cold light of day. -- Tim Bray, January 2005