Tony -- ...and then Tony White said... % % >Surely someone else out there must be ripping and encoding... What are % >you using? How did you install it all, and from where? % % from xterm or konsole, enter the command 'abcde' % % (make sure abcde is installed - it's not, by default) It wasn't, but I found it. It still needs an encoder as a back-end (don't get me wrong; I much prefer the plug-little-tools-together approach of *NIX, but I would have thought that I'd find a RPM that would work under 8.1 by now... It looks like even 8.1 is suddenly too old :-) % % this neat script does it all in one go, creating a directory for your cd % tracks, getting the cddb data, ripping, and conversion to ogg. % % *Much* easier and simpler than *any* graphical utility I've seen Hey, I'm a mutt guy; you know I'm gonna love a command-line utility! :-) % % Tony Thanks & HAND :-D -- David T-G * There is too much animal courage in (play) davidtg@justpickone.org * society and not sufficient moral courage. (work) davidtgwork@justpickone.org -- Mary Baker Eddy, "Science and Health" http://justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg!