I've been playing with Xubuntu, which comes with a couple Gnome apps to complete the lightweight Xfce desktop, and found Grip to be a very compact and well laid out ripper. With gogo @CBR it's even useable on this old PII/333 . Bit tricky to find a suitable gogo 3.13 compile (the Ubuntu repositories have some obscure old 2.39b7 version), but Rarewares came to the rescue. Command line encoding is more than twice as fast than GUI, but I'd rather not bother with adding tags and playlist files manually, if it's just a couple clicks one time in Grip . Flac and mpc fly in comparison.