When you insert an Audio CD into Kubuntu, the system will recognize it, mount it, and then ask you what you would like to do with the CD. To play the CD, select Play Audio CD with Amarok and then press the OK button. If you would like to always play Audio CDs with Amarok, select the Always do this for this type of media and then press the OK. If you are connected to the Internet, Amarok will retrieve the CD artist, title, and track data from freedb.org. If lyrics are available for the song currently playing, select the Lyrics tab. You can also retrieve artist information from Wikipedia by selecting the Artist tab.
When you insert an Audio CD into Kubuntu, the system will recognize it, mount it, and then ask you what you would like to do with the CD. Choose Extract and Encode Audio Tracks and then press the OK. This will open K3b, the CD and DVD Kreator, providing you with various options.
To start K3b manually go to → → .
Inside K3b, select what tracks you want to rip. All tracks are selected by default.
Press the CD Ripping button.
The K3b ripping button
Inside the CD Ripping window you are provided with many options.
Options - provides settings for filetype (Wave, Mp3, Flac, and Ogg-Vorbis), destination directory, and other options.
The Mp3 protocol is a restricted protocol. In order to utilize it with K3b, please refer to the information at the end of this procedure.
File Naming - provides settings for file naming pattern, playlist pattern, as well as the ability to remove blanks with a user configurable character.
Advanced - provides settings for paranoia, read retries, and others.
Select the Filetype from the Options tab. To the right of the filetype is a blue gear, select that for advanced settings for the filetype selected.
Once all settings are complete press the Start Ripping button.
Once the process is completed, close out of K3b.
K3b can extract audio files to the following formats:
Ogg Vorbis - Ogg Vorbis è un formato di compressione audio con perdita d'informazione libero da brevetti che produce generalmente una compressione di più alta qualità e più grande rispetto agli MP3. Vedere il sito web di Vorbis per maggiori informazioni.
FLAC - FLAC è il codec audio senza perdita d'informazione libero (Free Lossless Audio Codec). Può comprimere file audio fino al 50% della dimensione originale senza rimuovere alcuna informazione dal flusso audio. Per maggiori informazioni sul formato, vedere l'homepage del FLAC su sourceforge.net.
WAV - WAV è un formato audio non compresso, che può essere compresso in Ogg Vorbis od in un altro codec di propria scelta. È spesso usato quando si lavora sul suono in applicazioni come Audacity, prima di venire compresso.
You can also extract CD audio files to the proprietary non-free MP3 format by using the lame encoder. Install the lame to enable recording to the Mp3 protocol. Please refer to the Adding Applications documentation for help with installing applications.
Kubuntu non supporta direttamente il formato MP3, poiché è soggetto a restrizioni derivanti da brevetti e diritti proprietari. Al suo posto Kubuntu supporta in modalità predefinita il formato Ogg Vorbis, un formato completamente libero, aperto e non soggetto a brevetto. I file Ogg Vorbis suonano anche meglio rispetto ai file MP3 della stessa dimensione e sono supportati da molti lettori audio popolari (un elenco dei lettorii è qui).
You can still play your old MP3 files by installing MP3 support (see la sezione chiamata «Codec multimediali»). Instructions for other formats, such as Windows Media Audio (wma/wmv) and other patent encumbered formats can be located in the Ubuntu community documentation at http://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats.
The default music application on your Kubuntu system is the Amarok Music Player, a music management and playback application that looks similar to iTunes. When you first start Amarok, it will scan your home directory for any supported music files you have and add it to the database. To start Amarok go to → → .
Amarok has an inbuilt ID3 tag editor that can edit the metadata on your OGG and other music files. Please see the Amarok Handbook.
Si può far suonare musica direttamente dal proprio iPod con Amarok. Collegare semplicemente l'iPod al computer, ed aprire Amarok.
To transfer music files to and from an iPod, you can use Amarok as well. Please see the Amarok Handbook on how to manage media files in your iPod.