CD Ripping on Kubuntu with K3b and LAME

For various reasons (mostly to correct past mistakes), I decided I needed to start re-ripping my CD collection. Unfortunately, the default settings in K3b are not to my liking, and I’m sick of having to look things up to re-configure this, so I’m going to document my preferred settings here once and for all:

K3b Ripped files pattern

                      %A/%T/%a - %n - %t
                      

LAME command Advice taken from Hydrogenaudio’s recommended encoder settings:

                      lame -V0 --tt %t --ta %a --tl %m --ty %y --tc %c --tn %n - %f
                      

K3b external audio encoder settings for LAME On my machine, LAME will not encode properly unless I enable this option:

• Write Wave Header