It turns out you CAN rip songs from CDs with Strawberry if you're clever
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This was a neat little discovery I thought I'd share with people. It works on Ubuntu Jammy Jellyfish; I can't guarantee that it'll work on any other operating system, and even if it does the procedure is probably slightly different, but here's what I did:
- I inserted a CD (specifically, the Beatles' Anthology 2, Disc 1) into my disc drive, then opened it in my file browser the way I might open a USB drive or something similar.
- The songs on the CD were listed as "Track 1.wav", "Track 2.wav", etc.
- At least on Ubuntu, there's a meatball menu at the top of the file browser with several options including "Open in terminal". I chose this option.
- A terminal window opened which allowed me to see where the CD was mounted in my filesystem.
[name-of-computer]:/run/user/1000/gvfs/cdda:host=sr0$- I then went to my Strawberry window, opened the transcoder, and clicked "Import".
- In the import window, I went to the very top file of my computer, and then clicked folders in the order they appeared on the path in the terminal: first "run", then "user", etc. When I reached "cdda:host=sr0", I clicked "open".
- I now had "Track 1.wav", "Track 2.wav", etc. in the transcoder. I tried transcoding them as MP3s the way I would with any other WAV files, and it worked! (Just don't choose "Alongside the original files" as your destination. I don't think anything bad will happen, it just won't work.)