On Thu, Jun 4, 2026 at 9:38 PM Eben King wrote: > On 6/4/26 18:57, Lee wrote: > > Previously I used > > > abcde/stable 2.9.3-1 all > > A Better CD Encoder > > but recently I went to rip some more, and abcde wasn't installed, so I used > > hrmmm... you didn't install abcde. Should I read something into that? Like it wasn't all that great?
> cdparanoia/stable 3.10.2+debian-14+b1 amd64 > > audio extraction tool for sampling CDs > > what makes that option so much fun is there's a cdparanoia and a cd-paranoia. Is there an actual difference or is this yet another instance of someone being too [something] to fix whatever so they write another version of the program from scratch? (& why is re-implementing something such a thing in linux??) I don't do it often, so I haven't really compared the lot of 'em. > > > On windows the choice was easy.. Exact Audio Copy (EAC) + LAME > > I found instructions for running EAC with WINE. Is that better than any > > 'native' app? > > I have not used EAC but I avoid WINE if there's a native app. > Which is what I'm trying to do. I haven't installed wine yet, but EAC might change my mind. And Irfanview. Why the **** isn't there an open source view pretty much any image program for linux? xnview is free, but not opensource, so I'm still looking for an image viewer .. In any case, thanks for the info!! Regards, Lee
