I’m writing a Swedish introduction to Linux and music production for the curious studio freaks at studio.se. Honor to them for having a separate linux section! I’m keeping it up to date and you are most welcome to give feedback.

Vad har jag för möjligheter att skapa musik med Linux?

iPad
1GHz Apple A4
No firewire or USB
Microphone
Few advanced music apps available but some simple.

indamixx
Intel 800 Mhz CPU (SSE 2)
USB no firewire
Microphone
More advanced music apps  available

I wanted to rip a song from an audio-CD to use as reference listening when mixing. A quick search in the repo and I found this little program called Audio CD Extractor (Sound Juicer). First I fired it off, just to notice the default output was ogg. Second I spent some time figuring out the options and found one predefined profile for wav. This time the output was 22050hz mono. Since I waned better sound quality I had to make a modification of the options as listed below.

Change output format by adding a new profile.
Name it CD Rip and add this properties.
Gstreamer pipline: audio/x-raw-int,rate=44100,channels=2 ! wavenc name=enc
File extension: wav
Activate it.

Close and reopen the extractor and chose CD Rip as output.