Thanks for all your help folks. Yes I think I screwed up when I originally the created CD.... :-> I borrowed a friend's CD original and during the course of a work day hurriedly copied the contends to the "burn folder" on my MAC and executed, not really thinking of the outcome. It probably built a data CD and that may explain my issue. Arg...but I have gotten some good ideas. Much obliged. Reid drew Roberts wrote: > On Sunday 11 January 2009 13:41:23 Reid Vail wrote: > >> Hello group - >> >> I'm a pretty experienced linux \ ubuntu user trying to rip a CD with >> .aiff files and convert them to some format that more easily understood >> by some of my not-so-high-tech audio equipment. A .wav format comes to >> mind but I'm flexible. >> > > I am asking this question after reading some of the replies... > > So, this is a data disk with .aiff files on it and not a standard CD, correct? > >> Do you know of utility that will do this? I tried GRIP and even loaded >> flac, but probably got it wrong. Just FYI the disc is readable and >> plays (.aiff format and all) with Rhythymbox, so I know that much works :-> >> >> many thanks >> >> Reid >> > > all the best, > > drew > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user > > _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user