Hi everyone. I have Ubuntu installed on my laptop, and I have some CD's that I need to burn. I have to use Amarok since Rhythmbox and Banshee don't recognize the songs on it, they just say "Track 1" (instead of the actual name of the song). Amarok recognizes the songs, but won't import as mp3. In fact it only imported a couple of the songs, not the whole CD, even though it recognizes the songs. How can I get Amarok to import my CD's, or get Banshee and Rhythmbox to recognize them?

Thanks in advance.

The procedure of importing music from a cd is called ripping. Amarok doesn't, to my knowledge, rip cd wave files and encode them to another format such as mp3. You will need a cd ripper to rip the wav files and encode them to mp3. I use grip for that. I configure the rip, then I configure the encode (encode to mp3, show album name, artist name, track name) which information grip will get for you if you have an active internet connection. No doubt there are other programs which will do the same.

Once you have the cd ripped to disk, you can then import the whole thing to Amarok.

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