Due to some hard drive problems, I need to rip all my cds again. I'm planning on using 192 or 224 mp3s for this. I know I could use EAC+lame, but I like to use iTunes to organize my music. So just ...

I use the audiocd KIO slave in KDE 2.2 to encode the things I rip (to Ogg Vorbis though it can use liblame AFAIK) and clean up the comments with vorbiscomment if necessary (e.g., proper capitalization ...

Lame began life with a name that complied perfectly with the wry Unix recursive acronym naming tradition. Originally, lame stood for “Lame Ain’t an MP3 Encoder,” though it was clearly exactly that.