BladeEnc (http://home8.swipnet.se/~w-82625) is a wonderful encoder if you're interested in producing high-quality MP3's. cdparanoia is definitely the way to go for ripping audio tracks.
Eric. On Tue, Feb 02, 1999 at 03:10:34PM +0300, Heikki Vatiainen wrote: > > My current favourite is L.A.M.E., which stands for > L.A.M.E Ain't an Mp3 Encoder. > > It is fast and the quality is good enough, at least for me. LAME > needs the ISO example source code to work so you have to do some > patching and compiling to get it working. All you need is at > http://student.uq.edu.au/~s302585/ > > PS. I'm using cdparanoia to create .wav files. The .deb is in > slink and potato. >