Best Way to Import Audio CD's

[SedaliaSteve]

I've been putting a 9.04 system that will be used mainly as a music repository. With 1T of RAID1 it should be able to hold all my CD's with lots of room to spare.

I still haven't decided on a player but I've started importing them onto the system with abcde. I'm importing them as FLAC's. I'm fond of the format and I collect some taper friendly bands so I already have lots of material in that format.

I configured abcde to organize by Artist/Album/Tracks. So far Banshee has been able to import this format successfully and play into my stereo with decent sound. It does somewhat suck at handling compilation CD's but I can revist that.

I just wondered what people use for importing and organizing music collections. I'd like to be able to have as much info as possible along the lines of itunes or winamp.

I have a huge collection so I'd like to check opinions before I import it all.

Steve

[zero777zero]

rhythmbox and songbird are popular, if all else fails run foobar2000 through wine

[Samilong]

I use Sound Juicer to import, and Rhythmbox to play...

Both Sound Juicer and Rhythmbox support .flac, and generally speaking handle compilation CDs well.

I must have sampled a dozen or more disc importers and players; these two work, which is more than I can say for some... ;)

[SedaliaSteve]

Thanks for the suggestions. I don't know what happened but it must have been some of the many updates. Rhythmbox and other appps get the info and can import the files.

Right now this is a side issue. I started looking into hooking it up to my stereo and I'm horrified. The Intel ALC888 HD audio is a nightmare. The analog is low and poor quality. The digital simply doesn't work. I've been searching the archive and have installed and reinstalled alsa and other components with no luck.

As I looked into this I've found that this chipset family has been a problem for Ubuntu for years. When I was deciding what to order I tried very hard to find out what to order. It was hard for me to pull those details out of these forums.

I have CD's of drivers for Windows. I'm going to keep going for the weekend and if it doesn't work it becomes a Windows PC. Ubuntu is great in many areas but I don't think media computers are one. I'd be thrilled to be proved wrong but I don't expect to.

Steve