audio software recommendations

Cdparanoia is a CD ripper that extracts the audio files from a CD and creates PCM (or AIFF) wave files with header for further computer use. [more...]

OggEnc is basically a wave to Ogg file converter tool (Ogg encoder), thus this is the tool you use for creating your compressed audio files (nope, not MP3!). [more...]

One of the most popular audio players on GNU systems is the X Multimedia System (XMMS). A not-so-fair description would be that it is a WinAmp clone :-) [more...]