Amarok don't rip cd's

[Alex Schuster]

Myriam Schweingruber wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 3:36 PM, Jan van der Linden <taurus45 at ziggo.nl> wrote:

>> Using amarok with Linux Mint KDE version 18.1 I cannot rip a cd.
[...]
>> What do I wrong? Or is there something else wrong?
> 
> Probably nothing, but the version you are using has a bug making
> ripping CDs impossible.
> Anyway, Amarok is not a good tool to rip CDs as it proceeds quite
> slow, this is done much better and faster with K3b. If you add the
> ripped files to the same location where your collection already is
> (e.g. in a subfolder of it), Amarok will pick them up automatically.

Another great KDE utility for this is SoundKonverter. I had some small
annoyances with K3b, like that it would not remember the export path -
but I did not upgrade my Linux in years, so this might be much better
now. Still, SoundKonverter is nice, simple, easy, might be worth a try.

	Wonko