i just played a bit with wine (windows emulation on linux) and i got frontah to run on a mandrake 9.2 system. it is 100% functional though icons sometimes get screwed up...

all encoders in frontah's folder are recognized and WORK 100%. i am not talking about linux compiles, no. lame, ogg, ape , mpc and aac's .exe all encode/decode perfectly. files are all ok.

i would never have thought it could be possible B) funny

linux users, give it a try...

i also tried other tools like mp3utility, encspot and mp3bookhelper. they all work great on linux...
linux lacks a good tagger, mp3bookhelper will do just fine!

Interesting

now for the details :
- Wine 20030115
-libWine 20030115

i tried more recent builds but they dont work on my system.
you can either keep frontah on a windows partition and run it from there (wine /mnt/win/...) OR create a fake windows dir/partition in your /home directory and install all the stuff on it.

now you can rip with grip or ripperx and encode to mp3 or mpc, then check the files with encspot! all that under linux...

long live the penguins!!!

I don't know if I'd feel good running sensible programs like an encoder using WINE especially when there are native compiles available. Have you tried using frontah in combination with native (linux) binaries?

i ripped a bunch of files, they all are 100% clean (mp3, mpc, ogg, aac psy) even after replaygain'ed them. sure it can seem kinda stupid as mp3, mpc... bin are available for linux but the fact is that it works
thats all

PS:
frontah only recognize exe that are placed in its folder, no linux bin...