Trouble playing and ripping CD audio files on Linux Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 32-bit

Question

I'm trying to rip audio files from a CD onto a subdirectory of the Music directory. My Linux 12.04 LTS 32-bit came with Audacity, Brasero, Banshee, and Rhythmbox. (Yes, not one, four players. Go figure.) I tried playing the audio files with Audacity, Banshee, and Rhythmbox, but they all would freeze, so I would have to force-quit them. I was thinking about copy-and-paste, but I noticed that the icons of those files have a lock on them. So I tried this:

andrey@owner-VPCSC1AFM:~/.gvfs/cdda mount on sr0$ sudo cp ./* ~/Music/Scott\ Walker/Tilt/
[sudo] password for andrey:
cp: cannot stat `./Track 1.wav': Permission denied
cp: cannot stat `./Track 2.wav': Permission denied
cp: cannot stat `./Track 3.wav': Permission denied
cp: cannot stat `./Track 4.wav': Permission denied
cp: cannot stat `./Track 5.wav': Permission denied
cp: cannot stat `./Track 6.wav': Permission denied
cp: cannot stat `./Track 7.wav': Permission denied
cp: cannot stat `./Track 8.wav': Permission denied
cp: cannot stat `./Track 9.wav': Permission denied

... where ~/.gvfs/cdda mount on sr0 is actually the Audio Disc feature. I checked out the files' permissions:

andrey@owner-VPCSC1AFM:~/.gvfs/cdda mount on sr0$ ls -l
total 588881
-r-------- 1 andrey owner 70223776 Dec 31 1969 Track 1.wav
-r-------- 1 andrey owner 63852208 Dec 31 1969 Track 2.wav
-r-------- 1 andrey owner 93532096 Dec 31 1969 Track 3.wav
-r-------- 1 andrey owner 64468432 Dec 31 1969 Track 4.wav
-r-------- 1 andrey owner 55667248 Dec 31 1969 Track 5.wav
-r-------- 1 andrey owner 81877936 Dec 31 1969 Track 6.wav
-r-------- 1 andrey owner 89611312 Dec 31 1969 Track 7.wav
-r-------- 1 andrey owner 55260352 Dec 31 1969 Track 8.wav
-r-------- 1 andrey owner 28518112 Dec 31 1969 Track 9.wav

... and tried to manually change their permissions, and came up with this:

andrey@owner-VPCSC1AFM:~/.gvfs/cdda mount on sr0$ chmod 500 ./*
chmod: changing permissions of `./Track 1.wav': Operation not supported
chmod: changing permissions of `./Track 2.wav': Operation not supported
chmod: changing permissions of `./Track 3.wav': Operation not supported
chmod: changing permissions of `./Track 4.wav': Operation not supported
chmod: changing permissions of `./Track 5.wav': Operation not supported
chmod: changing permissions of `./Track 6.wav': Operation not supported
chmod: changing permissions of `./Track 7.wav': Operation not supported
chmod: changing permissions of `./Track 8.wav': Operation not supported
chmod: changing permissions of `./Track 9.wav': Operation not supported

Is it not allowing me to change permissions because I did not do this as a super-user? So, I tried this:

andrey@owner-VPCSC1AFM:~/.gvfs/cdda mount on sr0$ sudo chmod 500 ./*
[sudo] password for andrey:
chmod: cannot access `./Track 1.wav': Permission denied
chmod: cannot access `./Track 2.wav': Permission denied
chmod: cannot access `./Track 3.wav': Permission denied
chmod: cannot access `./Track 4.wav': Permission denied
chmod: cannot access `./Track 5.wav': Permission denied
chmod: cannot access `./Track 6.wav': Permission denied
chmod: cannot access `./Track 7.wav': Permission denied
chmod: cannot access `./Track 8.wav': Permission denied
chmod: cannot access `./Track 9.wav': Permission denied

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Alternatively, I could simply install a ripper application, like Asunder (source: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2185451). I've installed Asunder, but for some reason it took a really long time (about 30 mins) to rip the whole CD. If you know a better ripper application (stable, all-audio-formats -friendly ripper application that does not take an eternity to rip a CD), please comment.

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So, as you can see, not only do I have trouble playing and ripping CD audio files, but I also have trouble changing their permissions. Any help to redeem this issue would be much appreciated ... before I stupidly install one more extra media player that might make playing the files happen, or an unnecessary ripping program. I did find some similar threads on the forum (https://askubuntu.com/search?q=rip+audio), but they had quite different scenarios, not what I was looking for.

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I'm definitely using Ubuntu.

• Audacity: 2.0.0-1ubuntu0.1;
• Banshee: 2.4.1-3ubuntu1~precise2;
• Rhythmbox: 2.96-0ubuntu4.3

I dont remember how I installed these.

Answer 1

This works for me. Hope it works for you too :)

Install required software packages using apt-get.

$ sudo apt-get install cdparanoia lame sox  

Display verbosely about search for CD+ROM drive and tabulate contents using ‘cdparanoia’

$ sudo cdparanoia -vsQ  

Indicate progress and extract each track in CD+ROM to one .wav file each.

$ sudo cdparanoia -B  

Convert .wav to high quality .mp3.

$ sudo lame --preset extreme ./track01.cdda.wav ./FileNameOfYourChoice.mp3  

Play .wav file.

$ play track01.cdda.wav

Answer 2

It looks like you have a permissions problem here.

You can try and become root and do it from there with:

sudo -i

Enter in your password and then go back to the location and attempt to copy the files.

Answer 3

I've also had significant ttrouble getting audio ripping working using 14.04 (which is now the latest stable release). RipOff doesn't find any plugins to encode, asunder freezes very frequently etc.

The asunder problems at least are fixed in Doug McMahon's CD Ripping PPA and that also contains a version of rubyripper - I recommend using this PPA