Ripping CDS

[Jacob Schmude]

Hi
Well, if you only want to rely on programs that come with RH, you have a 
few choices. cdda2wav is a program that can rip tracks into wav files. It, 
however, has no jitter or error correction. cdparanoia is another ripper 
that comes with rh, the one I use. It has error/jitter correction and works 
well on all cdrom drives that can extract digital audio, which most drives 
can. The only ones that can't do this are very old. Cdparanoia, too, rips 
tracks to wav files.
As for abcd being a "debian application," this is not strictly true. It is 
a debian package, meaning it's been prepackaged for debian. But if you 
wanted to, you could locate its homepage (which I can't remember at the 
moment), grab the source, and compile it. You would then have it running on 
RH. Alternative, you can try searching on:
http://rpmfind.net
and see if someone has compiled an rpm for your system. Keep in mind that 
abcd is an interface to other programs, a front-end to a ripper and an 
encoder of your choice.
HTH