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ogg files from audio CDs
If you like to listen to music, but do not want to carry around your compact discs, then here is a simple way to turn your songs into ogg vorbis files from Etch.

1. sudo aptitude install cdparanoia
2. sudo aptitude install vorbis-tools

Check your groups to make sure you are a member of groups cdrom and audio
Open a shell (Applications -> Debian -> XShells -> XTerm)
robert@pip:/tmp$ groups
robert dialout cdrom floppy audio video plugdev netdev powerdev

Put a music CD into your CDROM drive.
Then make sure cdparanoia can see the drive and disk.

robert@pip:/tmp$ cdparanoia -vsQ
It should spew some info about your drive and tracks on the CD.

To rip an individual track, Say track '5', then
robert@pip:/tmp$ cdparanoia -B 5

To convert the created *.wav file to ogg, then
robert@pip:/tmp$ oggenc *.wav

Now you have a ogg vorbis encoded music file, and can be played by totem, xmms, etc. (whee!)

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I then put these files into my USB jump drive to be able to play on any PC (even in M$ media player... if you download the ogg vorbis codec into widows media player. See the 'ogg vorbis' entry in en.wikipedia.org)

For my Etch install, both totem and xmms can play the ogg files, as well as my work M$ PC (with the codec). For Christmas my wife even got me an 'Insignia' mp3 player, and it also can play ogg vorbis files.

Happy ripping and listening!

Current Music: none

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