
When a blank CD is inserted, Kubuntu will recognize it, mount it, and then ask what to do with the CD. Choose Create an audio CD with K3B and press . This will open the K3b CD and DVD creator, and provide various options.
To start K3b manually, go to → → → .
Select New Audio CD Project in the New Project drop-down menu.
Inside K3b, browse and select the tracks to be ripped. Then drag and drop the tracks into the white area at the bottom of the K3b window.
K3b project window
Press the button when all tracks have been chosen.
Several options are offered inside the Burning window.
Writing - provides choices related to burning an image from the files selected in the previous step.
No MP3 Support by Default
MP3 is a protocol restricted by patents. In order to use it with K3b, please refer to the information at the end of this procedure.
Image - provides settings to write an image to a location on the disk using the selected tracks.
CD-Text - provides input fields to add artists and title tags to the CD.
Advanced - provides a choice to normalize volume if the selected tracks have different volume levels.
When all settings have been reviewed, press the button.
K3b can extract audio files to the following formats:
Ogg Vorbis - Ogg Vorbis is a patent-free lossy audio compression format which usually produces higher quality and greater compression than MP3. See the Vorbis website for more information.
FLAC - The Free Lossless Audio Codec, FLAC, can compress audio files up to 50% without removing any information from the audio stream. For more information on this format, see the FLAC homepage on Sourceforge™.
WAV - Wav is an uncompressed audio format that can be compressed into OGG Vorbis or a codec of your choice. It is often edited in applications such as Audacity before being compressed.
CD audio files can be extracted to the proprietary, non-free MP3 lossy format by using the lame encoder. Please refer to the Adding Applications documentation for help with installing applications such as lame.