According to dchapman@canwest.victoria.bc.ca:
>
>I can rip tracks with cdparanoia, encode them with bladeenc and play the
>resulting mp3 with amp or mpg123.
>

HINT: use lame for your encoding - last time I looked lame was twice
as fast as bladeenc.

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