Grip is a cd-player and cd-ripper for the GNOME desktop. It has the ripping capabilities of cdparanoia builtin, but can also use external rippers (such as cdda2wav). It also provides an automated frontend for MP3 (and other audio format) encoders, letting you take a disc and transform it easily straight into MP3s. Internet disc lookups are supported for retrieving track information from disc database servers. To encode MP3s, an external encoder (like audio/lame) is needed. To ensure correct operation of Grip, the user needs RW access to the CD/DVD device(s).
WWW: http://sourceforge.net/projects/grip/