[linux-audio-user] cd ripping in linux

[Lee Revell]

On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 16:55 +0200, Florian Schmidt wrote:
> On Tuesday 10 October 2006 05:21, Josh Lawrence wrote:
> > Wow, am I confused.  I'm going on a trip tomorrow for a couple of
> > days, and want to take a few CDs worth of music with me.  I made the
> > mistake of googling for how to rip a CD in linux, and there are more
> > ways to do it than to skin a cat.  I don't care what format they are
> > in (mp3, ogg, whatever), I just want to listen to my CDs on my laptop.
> >
> > How should I do this?
> >
> > I'm running Debian Etch.  CDDB support would be a must (don't have
> > time to type all of that stuff in!).  Any ideas?
> 
> Most comfy for me is k3b. It supports CDDB and all major ripping backends and 
> different output formats, FLAC, mp3, ogg, whudever  (besides it's also a very 
> cool burning app)..

Do all of these apps support exact bit-for-bit extraction (like EAC on
Windows)?  IOW, can I rip the same CD on several different machines and
have the MD5 sums of the resulting .wavs match?

Lee