In Part 1 of CLB: Ripping Audio CD’s, I showed how to rip the audio from a CD and save it as WAV files using cdparanoia. In today’s short tutorial I’ll show how to convert those WAV files to Ogg Vorbis audio files.

So the first thing we’ll need to do is make sure that the proper tools are installed. We’re going to use the oggenc command which is part of the vorbis-tools package. You can check your distro’s repositories for vorbis-tools. If you’re using Ubuntu, you can install it with: Continue reading →