How I Rip and Encode MP3s on the Ubuntu Linux Command Line

April 10, 2008 – 7:00 am

I like to know how to use the command line for everything I can. Here are the tools and commands I use to make mp3s.
First, I rip from the CDROM to a wav file.
cdparanoia 1 prokofiev1.wav
cdparanoia lets me specify the input device, but I don’t need to, since the default—/dev/cdrom—is what I [...]

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1 in 4 Million

September 7, 2006 – 12:43 pm
Apparently there are four million of us Ubuntu users (I’m assuming they’re including Kubuntu in the mix). That sounds like a lot, until you realize that it’s only about 2/3 the number of Windows computers that are zombies.
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