On 6/4/26 22:32, Lee wrote:
On Thu, Jun 4, 2026 at 9:38 PM Eben King wrote:

On 6/4/26 18:57, Lee wrote:

Previously I used

abcde/stable 2.9.3-1 all
    A Better CD Encoder

but recently I went to rip some more, and abcde wasn't installed, so I used

hrmmm...  you didn't install abcde.  Should I read something into that?
Like it wasn't all that great?

cd-paranoia was, so I figured I'd give it a try. abcde got track names from an online service, and I don't think cd-paranoia does. I usually had to tweak the names to make them shell-friendly. The first time (when I used abcde) I hade ~100 CDs to rip, so having that characteristic was good. Later, it was just 1-2 at a time, so it's not a big deal to rename trackNN.mp3 to whatever.

I didn't do a head to head comparison, if that's what you mean. Either one gets the job done for me.

On windows the choice was easy.. Exact Audio Copy (EAC) + LAME
I found instructions for running EAC with WINE.  Is that better than any
'native' app?

I have not used EAC but I avoid WINE if there's a native app.


Which is what I'm trying to do.  I haven't installed wine yet, but EAC
might change my mind.  And Irfanview.  Why the **** isn't there an open
source view pretty much any image program for linux?  xnview is free, but
not opensource, so I'm still looking for an image viewer ..

I've used feh, eog, and ristretto, and settled on ristretto. The only images I've run across that it won't open are RAW images from some camera. I did have to get a plugin or something (library?) for webp. I use gimp if I have to do any editing.

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