I use "grip" too, and though it has a few UI glitches, it's never hung on me. I've configured it to use cdparanoia for ripping and lame for encoding. My computer's drive sucks (it's a Toshiba DVD with known bugs in reading, nothing the software can do) but all in all the grip combination works fine. I've never burnt a CD on Linux, can't help you there. -- Jamie McCarthy jamie@mccarthy.vg