Although I run Gnome, I can recommend several KDE/QT-based tools which I've been using for some time:
SoundKonverter to do the ripping, conversion, and tagging. This tools uses online CD databases, and you can edit the metadata before saving the files; for example, if you "prefer title" case to "start case". You can define the file system layout for the saved music: for instance ~/Music/ARTIST/YEAR - ALBUM/NN - TITLE.EXTENSION, which is my preferred format.
Kid3 for additional and/or mass tag editing, and the ability to save album art directly in the files.
Flacon when you originally have one big audio file and a cue sheet, but you want to split the file into separate tracks.
Sonic Visualiser to "view" audio data and check mastering quality. With this tool, you can actually *see* that some CDs are victims of loudness war. And a related one: Spek.
Although I run Gnome, I can recommend several KDE/QT-based tools which I've been using for some time:
SoundKonverter to do the ripping, conversion, and tagging. This tools uses online CD databases, and you can edit the metadata before saving the files; for example, if you "prefer title" case to "start case". You can define the file system layout for the saved music: for instance ~/Music/ARTIST/YEAR - ALBUM/NN - TITLE.EXTENSION, which is my preferred format.
Kid3 for additional and/or mass tag editing, and the ability to save album art directly in the files.
Flacon when you originally have one big audio file and a cue sheet, but you want to split the file into separate tracks.
Sonic Visualiser to "view" audio data and check mastering quality. With this tool, you can actually *see* that some CDs are victims of loudness war. And a related one: Spek.