+ k3b is good for ripping+converting cd audio to mp3 or other formats.
++ asunder is a great ripper for CDs and supports a lot of output formats.
+
+ for lossless music compression, the flac and shorten (shn) formats are
very nice. there are some canonical tools for each platform for these.
+ for converting from ogg and such to mp3 and m4a and such, use the
gnome tool called 'soundconverter'.
++ musicbrainz provides a freedb style gateway for looking up albums, artists and songs...
+ https://wiki.musicbrainz.org/History:FreeDB_Gateway
+ use this instead of the old freedb URL:
+ http://freedb.musicbrainz.org:80/~cddb/cddb.cgi
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