I’ve been using grip to transfer some of my CDs to my fixed disk so I can them replay them with “xmms”:http://www.xmms.org/. Although I like to listen to music when I am working at my computer, I find it tedious to continually have to switch cds in the cup holder. Right now, I have over 400 songs by thirty artists and groups. Grip, as indicated by its name, grabs a stranglehold on the computer resources, but hidden in the configuration tabs is a place where you can tell it to play “nice”:http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man1/nice.1.html so you can use your computer for other activities at the same time.