2.4. Playing and ripping an Audio CD

You can play CDs with Aqualung easily. Just put the CD in one of your CD drives, and if everything goes well, Aqualung will detect it, do a CDDB lookup to retrieve artist, record and track info (CD-Text is also used if the CD has it), and make it available to you through the special Music Store node called `CD Audio'.

You don't have to be happy with what you have so far. The Music Store paradigm is fairly addictive, as it's much easier to drop something into the Playlist from the Music Store than physically placing a CD in the drive. So as you keep expanding your CD collection, you will probably want to have those records in one of your music stores, too. In this case all you have to do is choose Rip CD... from the disc's popup menu, and supply some information. We won't go into details here (please refer to this section in case the interface is not obvious). However, it is worth stating that you should have a separate directory for the files of each record. Ripping multiple CDs into the same directory won't work.