ripping software

[Travis Roy]

> Maybe I should consider using Ogg for my encoding format.  It *is* a
> little bit irritating sitting down to work at a newly installed Linux
> box only to find out that I can't play my music because of patent
> issues (or, at least, not without installing extra software).

Installing extra software, like what? If you're running RH9 how hard is it
to type:

rpm -Uvh http://www.xmms.org/files/1.2.x/rpm/rh9.x/xmms-1.2.8-1.i386.rpm

That's really a hassle?