How to rip Audio CD as .mp3 files ?


Install the lame utility as mentioned in this link


Use the following script to rip your AUDIO CD contents to .mp3 files

Copy these lines to a script file like convert2mp3.sh and add this script file in your /usr/bin as root


# Script to rip the Audio CD contents as mp3 files
# requires the cdparanoia utility to work
# cdparanoia utility converts the Audio CD contents to individual .wav files and
# script goes through each ripped .wav file and calls the lame utility to convert
# them as .mp3 files

cdparanoia -B
for i in `ls *.wav`
do
  echo "Converting $i to MP3"
  lame $i `basename $i .wav`.mp3
done
rm *.wav


Remember to give execute permission for the script as follows

chmod 755 /usr/bin/convert2mp3.sh