HOWTO: Rip CDs with Konqueror.
This one took me a few months to catch onto. I spend the better part of a year without digital music because I was so disgusted with the whole DRM thing. When I came back (after discovering Magnatune and MP3Tunes) I wanted to rip my collection into MP3 format (hopefully I’ll get an OGG player soon and then I will rip them into OGG as well).
Ripping CDs with Konqueror is so ridiculously easy that I missed it entirely.
Plop a CD into the CD drive. If Konqueror doesn’t flash up right away for you, then launch it and navigate to your CD drive. You’ll see something that looks like the picture to the right (click to make it larger). The CD in the drive doesn’t actually have OGG Vorbis, Flac, and CDA folders, they’re virtual folders provided for you.
The big decision here is what format to rip your music into. If you want the tracks in OGG format, then open the OGG Vorbis folder and copy all the tracks in it to your hard drive. Konqueror will rip the tracks and convert them into OGG on the fly.
Note that I don’t have the LAME MP3 encoder installed on my system. If I did, then there would also be an MP3 folder.
If Konqueror doesn’t show you these folders for some reason, there may be a couple of reasons for that:
- I believe this functionality requires the audiocd Kio Slave for Konqueror. If you don’t see the stuff you want when you open Konq, grab the audiocd Kio Slave plugin. I’ve never seen it not installed, so I don’t know where to get it. Ask Google!
- My Kanotix box opens /mnt/cdrom0 when I click on my CDRom drive. This is great for data, but it doesn’t show me the ripping stuff I want with an audio CD. To get the virtual folders to show up for me, I had to type audiocd:/ in the location bar
Wow..intuitive or what?
