LAME, Debian, Problems

[catacon]

I just got Debian 3.1, installed it, and got everything working, for the most part. Then I decided to check to see if I could rip some of my CD's to the computer. I had used KAudioCreate with SUSE, so I thought I would try that again. Before I did, however, I used dpkg to install and configure LAME. (Using dkpg -i file and dkpg -c file). It said everything went OK and so I begin to rip the CD (just one file to test). It ripped fine, but when it got to the enocding part, it said it cound not find the encoder and all this junk. What am I doing wrong? I did have the encoder set to LAME. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[catacon]

Well, I didn't figure out how to use LAME, but I have found another work around. Using Konqueor (in KDE or GNOME), you can go to Window>Show Navigation Panel (F9) and then in the nav panel go to Settings>Audio CD. From there you can select the files in .cda, .flac, .mp3, .ogg, and full cd, then just copy and paste to wherever. Pretty cool, huh? Here's the link I found it on:

http://ubuntuforums.org/printthread.php?t=38486

Just for the sake of not creating another thread, I will ask this here.

How do I configure the rear-audio out on my sound card? I can only get front audio. Any ideas?

[ffreeloader]

How do I configure the rear-audio out on my sound card? I can only get front audio. Any ideas?

Have you installed either the alsamixergui package or the Gnome alsa control panel package gmix? That's where I control those speakers on my system.

[catacon]

I'll give that a shot. Another question, how do I burn CD's? The system does not detect my cd-burner as one. It says it's just a cd-rom drive? How do I change that?

Thanks!

PS

I got Grip to work for CD ripping.

[ffreeloader]

I use K3B for all my cd burning needs. Use apt-get to install it. Apt-get will give you some "suggested" and "recommended" packages with K3B. Install the "recommended" ones too. If you have a drive that will burn DVD's the dvdtools package needs to be installed too.

My system recognizes my cd burner as a regular cd drive too, but it still burns cds. I think in Debian it's the specific packages related to burning cd's that recognize which cd drives can burn cd's and which ones can't. Don't quote me on that though because I'm not positive on it. It just seems that way to me.