Need to Rip a CD on Linux Mint? How to Use Strawberry Music Player? Lets Get Started!

Okay, so, here’s the deal. I wanted to copy some tunes off an old CD of mine. You know, dust off the oldies and get them onto my computer. I’m running Linux Mint, and I figured Strawberry Music Player would be the easiest way to do this, I’ve used it to play music before, so why not use it to rip?

First off, I popped the CD into my computer’s drive. Nothing fancy here, just your standard CD drive. Then I opened up Strawberry. It recognized the CD right away, which was a good start.

Next, I saw there was this little menu in the top right, like three little lines. Clicked on that. Then I looked for an option that seemed like it would let me copy the tracks, and there it was, “Copy to Collection”. I clicked it, and a new window popped up.

• In this new window, I saw a bunch of options.
• The first thing I did was choose where I wanted to save the ripped files.
• I just made a new folder on my desktop called “Ripped Music” cause why not.
• Then I messed with the file format.
• It was set to FLAC by default, but I switched it to MP3, since that’s what I usually use.
• Nothing against FLAC, just personal preference, you know?

After that, I checked the list of tracks. Everything looked good. I didn’t need to change the names or anything, but it’s nice that you can if you want to. Then I saw the big “OK” button at the bottom and gave that a click.

And that was pretty much it! Strawberry started copying the tracks over. I saw a little progress bar, so I just kicked back and waited. It took a little while, CDs aren’t exactly speed demons, but it wasn’t too bad.

Once it was done, I went over to that “Ripped Music” folder I made earlier. And there they were! All my songs, ripped and ready to go. I opened one up in Strawberry, just to make sure everything was cool, and it played perfectly.

So yeah, that’s how I ripped a CD using Strawberry Music Player on Linux Mint. It was way easier than I thought it would be. Just a few clicks, and boom, all my music was on my computer. Pretty neat, right?