I'm running under gentoo and Kernel 2.6.6.

When it goes to rip, it pulls off the entire track, encodes it to MP3, and throws it in the designated directory. As soon as it's done saving track 1, and progresses to track 2, it erases track 1, and just goes onto track 2. This process continues until the end.

Any ideas WHY it seems to continue erasing the prior track?

it earses wav files, or r u sayin that it earses the mp3?

it erases everything, it appears to just rip the MP3 on the fly, and if you run "ls -s" you can watch the mp3 file it's generating grow with time, then as soon as it goes onto track two, it just erases the file you were watching grow (track 1)

Dude i am not really following u run "ls -s" where in a terminal? under what directroy?
r u using grip?? but the GUI?
or r u just using the decoders blah blha in text mode?
I need more info than what ur giving me dude

I am running grip, in a GUI (fluxbox). I do not know where you are confused, what info do you need?

When I put a CD into the drive, I select, "Rip + Encode"

The CD spins up, and it begins to rip track 1 to MP3 format. It generates a directory in my home directory called "mp3", then a sub directory called the artists name (whomever the CD is), then the albulm name, so for instance it would look like this when I hit "rip + encode"

~/mp3/pearl_jam/ten/

Under that directory it will start to rip track 1, and it names it accordingly .mp3

While it is ripping, if I open a terminal window, go into the directory and type "ls -s" (directory listing with file size) I can watch the file grow as it continues along. When grip finishes that file, it then just simply erases it, and starts going onto track 2.

What information do you need that I am not providing?

edit:

For instance, if I let it rip + encode the entire CD start to finish, in the directory nothing would be existant. It just erases everything it makes.

ok yeah now i understand. ok yeah eh i've had problems w/ mp3 using grp b4 but it was due to some of the option under the encode however it never deleted anything well except the wav when it rips. ok so go under config encode option and do not select delete wav. try to encode the songs in ogg if it works then maybe there's something wrong in the config dunno, but if u get the same problem then review the versio ur using c if there's a patch or something i am using 3.1.4 works fine 4 me.

PS if it deletes ur mp3 from ur wav just use cdparanoia to converte them into mp3, sometimes using text mode is way easier than GUI hehehe

keep me in touch i'll try 2 look 4 some info 4 u