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I use Banshee as my Media player and it works just find except that when I rip CDs into .wav files Banshee doesn't always get the ID3 information, artist, album, title, etc...
Any suggestion on a good CD ripper for Linux that does a better job at this. I would also like the ripper to rip my songs in the directory they need to go in. /home/me/Music/Artist/Album/Title.wav
Thanks for any and all suggestions.

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Likely cause: ripping to WAV is the main reason artist/album/title data is missing. WAV has inconsistent, nonstandard metadata support across tools and players, so even when a ripper writes tags the Banshee library may not read them. ’s K3b is a reasonable choice, but the underlying fixes are (a) use a format with reliable tagging (FLAC or MP3) and (b) use a ripper that does online lookup and filename templating.

Recommended workflow (practical, format-agnostic)

  • Pick a ripper that does online CD lookups and supports output templates (examples commonly used on Linux: K3b, Asunder, Sound Juicer, or the CLI tool abcde).
  • Set the output format to FLAC (lossless) or to MP3 (wider player compatibility). FLAC keeps a perfect archive and preserves tags reliably.
  • Configure the ripper to fetch metadata from an online service (MusicBrainz/CD lookup) and enable rip verification (AccurateRip) if available.
  • Set the filename template to create the desired layout, e.g. artist/album/track - title.ext so files land in /home/me/Music/Artist/Album/.
  • After ripping, run MusicBrainz Picard (or a similar tagger) to match unresolved discs and to write consistent tags and file renames.

If WAV is required for a device, keep a FLAC master and create WAV copies for the device. Converting FLAC -> WAV preserves audio but metadata in the WAV may still be ignored by Banshee; therefore keep metadata in filenames or keep the FLAC archive for library purposes. Also check Banshee’s library import settings and force a rescan if newly ripped files aren’t being detected.

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I use K3b - it is a front end for other command-line tools, but has a lot of options and handles the CL tools very well. I also use it to create and burn DVD's, CD's, and such.

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Thanks, I'll give it a try.

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