Quote Originally Posted by nad
For an overview, you may start with :
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/doc...-Writing-HOWTO

There is a wealth of information on the net regarding audio files and formats.

To quickly manipulate the audio data, get cdparanoia . I'm not using knoppix at the moment, but I know that there is a debian package.
thanks;
I'm on Debian Sarge (3.1r1) and I haven't booted to Knoppix(LiveCD) in awhile....
but check it out;

$ locate cdparanoia
/usr/bin/cdparanoia
/usr/share/doc/cdparanoia
/usr/share/doc/libcdparanoia0
/usr/share/doc/libcdparanoia0/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/share/doc/libcdparanoia0/copyright
/usr/share/doc/libcdparanoia0/FAQ.txt.gz
/usr/share/doc/libcdparanoia0/README.Debian
/usr/share/doc/libcdparanoia0/README.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/cdparanoia.1.gz
/var/cache/apt/archives/cdparanoia_3a9.8-11_i386.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/libcdparanoia0_3a9.8-11_i386.deb
/var/lib/dpkg/info/cdparanoia.list
/var/lib/dpkg/info/cdparanoia.md5sums
/var/lib/dpkg/info/cdparanoia.preinst
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libcdparanoia0.list
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libcdparanoia0.md5sums
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libcdparanoia0.postinst
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libcdparanoia0.postrm
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libcdparanoia0.shlibs

I also checked with Aptitude and I have cdparanoia installed already
Just haven't had time to play with it