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Playing Audio CDs

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.

Ripping Audio CDs

  1. 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.

  2. To start K3b manually go to KMenuMultimediaK3b - CD & DVD Burning.

  3. Inside K3b, select what tracks you want to rip. All tracks are selected by default.

  4. Press the CD Ripping button.


    K3b ripping button

    The K3b ripping button


  5. 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.

      No MP3 Support by Default

      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.

  6. 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.

  7. Once all settings are complete press the Start Ripping button.

  8. Once the process is completed, close out of K3b.

K3b can extract audio files to the following formats:

  • Ogg Vorbis - Ogg Vorbis is a patent-free lossy audio compression format which typically produces higher quality and greater compression than MP3. See the Vorbis website for more information.

  • FLAC - FLAC is the Free Lossless Audio Codec. It can compress audio files up to 50% without removing any information from the audio stream. For more information on this format, see the FLAC homepage on sourceforge.net.

  • WAV - Wav is an uncompressed audio format, which can be compressed into OGG Vorbis or a codec of your choice. It is often used while working on sound in applications like Audacity, before being compressed.

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.

Playing and Organizing Music Files

Kubuntu does not directly support the MP3 format, because it is restricted by patents and proprietary rights. Instead Kubuntu supports the Ogg Vorbis format out of the box, a completely free, open and non-patented format. Ogg Vorbis files also sound better then MP3 files of the same file size and are supported by many popular music players (a list of players is here).

You can still play your old MP3 files by installing MP3 support (see разделът със заглавие „Multimedia Codecs“). 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 KMenuMultimediaAmarok Audio -Player.

Amarok has an inbuilt ID3 tag editor that can edit the metadata on your OGG and other music files. Please see the Amarok Handbook.

Using your iPod

You can play music directly off your iPod with Amarok. Simply plug your iPod into the computer, and open 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.

Edit Audio Files

Audacity is a free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. To use Audacity:

  1. Install the audacity package.

  2. To run Audacity go to KMenuMultimediaAudacity.

  3. For further help about using Audacity, consult the program's help by choosing HelpContents from within Audacity.

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