On 11-03-10 08:47 AM, Robert P. J. Day: > > ... asked about ripping many CDs. > I ripped my small collection of about 100 CD a few years back. I encoded everything into flac. I used the very excellent command line tool "abcde." It automagically pulled the CD information from the internet giving me a chance to edit the result before ripping. Whatever tool you use I learned two important lessons: 1) always check the CD info. I found lots of typos and questionable interpretations of track names. 2) most importantly: choose a good file/track naming scheme from the start. Include the Artist and Album in the filename. Many programs don't do this by default. It makes working with the files a pain later. (Of course, you can always pull header information to rename the tracks later.) abcde excels at naming files. It handles multi-artist compilation albums sanely by keeping the album together, instead of seperating it out by artist. abcde also has options for substituting special characters out of file names. (I also replace space with underscore because I am old fashioned like that.) Once you have all the tracks in Flac it is relatively straight forward to create mp3 copies. I wrote a big messy script to do it. -- sg