I'm a fan of ripperX... nice and small.... I used to have a small shell script to do command-line ripping which was nice...lot's of "up" "enter" "up" "enter"
]]>grip's a frontend for ripping CDs, btw.
]]>do i definitely need the cd-to-sound card cable for that? for xmms i used the other method using the cdparanoia plugin described in the wiki (which i can't find now -- who messed up the wiki? )
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