I did some searching and I couldn't find any mention of default cd rippers in the full slackware installation. I know it includes cdparanoia and cdda2wav, but I want to find something that rips and encodes to mp3 in one step. Does anyone know if there's a package like that included? I don't mind a command line encoder, as long as it will retrieve the album info from cddb or some other source. I read a thread asking about a command line encoder that retrieves album info, and someone mentioned abcde--I may give that a try. I was just curious if there was anything like it included by default with the full install. I thought about looking through the package lists at slackware.com, but that a bit too tedious I'd be looking for days.

kaudiocreator works well and is part of KDE.

I'm using fluxbox, so I don't really use any KDE stuff. I know some of the gnome apps run with flux... maybe I'll try it.

If you've KDE libs installed and QT, KDE apps will run, it doesn't matter which wm you're using as long as the program don't use something specific of it.

Also, you could search in google and then get the program package or compile it, here you have some rippers: http://linux.tucows.com/cd_rippers_default.html
http://www.mp3-converter.com/linux/
http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~mbayer/tools/dekagen.html

I run xfce but use many kde apps. You don't have to run kde to use the various kde apps, as long as you've installed the kde packages.

Thanks for all the info. I remember a while back I tried to run either a KDE app in gnome or vice-versa and ran into biiiig problems... eg. 167 instances of the program started before I got a handle on it. Didn't crash the system though! heh. That was a long time ago--I think i was trying to run a gnome filemanager in KDE or something like that...nautilus I think. Anyway, I might give kaudiocreator a try. I just compiled abcde and I'm ripping my first cd. So far, it's staying ahead of XMMS, but it seems pretty slow. If anyone knows any abcde tweaks for better speed, let me know. I upped the processes to 2 so it can encode multiple files while ripping, but I think the cd drive speed is the problem. Thanks again for all the info everybody.

whoah... apparently LQ was down for a bit. Anyway, I finally got the id3v2 and lame installed to encode to mp3 instead of ogg with abcde. And changed the speed option in the .conf file. Not sure if it improved the speed though.