In switching over from Mandrake, one of the things that I've been missing the most is ripping cd's on the desktop to mp3. After upgrading to Hoary, this is actually pretty easy. Yes, I know that I could just rip to ogg format, but many mp3 players (ahem) don't support it. So mp3 is the desired goal.
KDE allows you to rip audio cds on the fly with a variety of formats. Here you can see the various choices. Sonny Rollins happens to be in my cd drive at this moment. And yes, I did by that cd. Thank you. You can configure how it rips in the control center:
After upgrading your apt-get sources and running apt-get update, upgrade, logging in and out, every thing works great. Obviously, you'll need to download KDE from the Ubuntu universe and you're going to need multiverse as well. Here's my apt-get sources file (/etc/apt/sources.list):
# deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 4.10 _Warty Warthog_ - Preview i386 Binary-1 (20041020)]/ unstable main restricted
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hoary main restricted
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hoary main restricted## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'universe'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## universe WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu security
## team.
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hoary universe
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hoary universedeb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hoary multiverse
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hoary-security main restricted
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hoary-security main restricted
One make sure that you've gotten the following packages in addition to KDE:
lame
liblame0
lame-extras
