I've gotten Amarok 1.4 up and running on my Ubuntu system, and have been organizing the music on my computer. Unfortunately, I can't rip CDs to my hard drive. I can play a CD itself, if I try to rip it by right-clicking on a track, the option for "rip" is there but not available. Naturally, I headed to the Amarok documentation to try and solve this, and it says that I need to have KDEmultimedia 3.3 for it to work. More specifically, it says that the "audiocd:/" protocol is used for ripping. (Click here to see what I mean)

The problem is, I'm using Ubuntu with GNOME, not KDE, and I can't get KDEmultimedia. I've come here because I don't know what to do or install now. Any suggestions?

See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CDRipping

Well, what I always do is use another application (such as Sound Juicer CD Extractor, available from Synaptic) to rip the CD to the folder of ~/music/place-artist-name-here/place-cd-name-here, then import it to my media player.

Hope this helps.

First of all, thanks Doctorzongo, I've considered using that, but what I really got Amarok for was an all-in-one kind of music organizer. I guess I'd feel a little ripped off (oops, pun not intended) if it didn't give me this pretty standard feature.

Second, I've looked at this page, and it seems to be a question of what to get now. They recommend gstreamer for Ubuntu-supported MP3 encoders, but Amarok asks for "audiocd:/", because it's a KDE program. So my two questions now would be: What protocol do I need, and if I need "audiocd:/", how do I get it?

(Sorry for the late reply, I've been busy)

Anyone? I know this thread has fallen off the first page, so this is just a bump.

As far as I know (someone correct me if I am wrong) but audiocd:/ is builtin to KDE, and since you are running gnome, it just isn't going to work. I don't know of anything else you could do short of running KDE if you only want to run amarok for ripping cd's. Otherwise, others have chimed in on their program for ripping cd's.

Okay, but even if I can't use audiocd:/, is there some protocol (like gstreamer) that would work? That's what I'm trying to figure out.