On Thursday 03 January 2008, Gavin Chester wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 08:57 +0000, peter nikolic wrote:
> > On Thursday 03 January 2008, Joe Sloan wrote:
> > > Bob S wrote:
> > > > Hi SuSE people,,
> > > >
> > > > Way OT, but what the heck I'm looking for a Linux solution.
> > > >
> > > > My kids gave me an MP3 player for Christmas to use when I go for my
> > > > daily walks. Old guys need exercise you know.
> > > >
> > > > So my question is what is the best program to convert my huge
> > > > collection of music CD's  to MP3 format so that I can load the music
> > > > on the MP3 player.
> > >
> > > I like grip for that myself -
> > >
> > > Joe
> >
> > Grip gets my vote  (althou i am an KDE user grip is the best)
>
> While I agree totally on 'grip', this is NOT a "me too" post ;-)
>
> I want to point out that it has not been mentioned that you need a live
> net connection when ripping to do a cddb lookup and get artist/track
> names when converting to mp3. This may not have been realised by
> original poster given the nature of his question.
>
> Gavin.

Yes while it does make life a little easier  for you if you have a live CDDB 
lookup   there is nothing stopping you entering the data yourself  before you 
actually rip the CD  i have had to do that a few times with some of the more 
obscure  CD's i have in my collection  ..  

Pete .


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