Copy/Rip Audio CDs to Your Computer

To copy (or “rip”) Audio CDs to your computer, the recommended way on KDE Linux is to use Discover to install Audex, KDE’s application for Audio CD ripping.

Launch Audex and insert a disc into the drive. It will automatically look up and download the disk metadata (artist, album name, track names etc.) from gnudb.org, if available. You can also make manual changes to all metadata.

Common file formats to use for the ripped audio files include MP3 (small files, good enough quality for most use cases) and FLAC (bigger files, "CD quality"). You can select your preferred format from the Profile drop-down menu on the toolbar.

After choosing an audio profile, click the Rip button on the right side of the toolbar! When ripping has finished, the audio files will be placed in a subfolder inside /home/[your username]/Music folder. If you want to use a different location or change the naming scheme of the resulting audio files, you can do all that and many more under Settings > Configure Audex….

Article contributed by Jan Rathmann under the CC-BY-4.0 license.