I would like to reproduce my music chain production under linux without virtualization and windows softwares:

1 - Ripping CD

Windows : with EAC to produce 1 big wave file with cuesheet .
Linux : ABCDE seems to be the best way to do this, saving each cd image in it's own directory; But i never succeeded in obtaining a cuesheet with artist, titles and album names as EAC does. Is it possible? Can rubyripper outpout a single cd image file?

2-Converting to flac

Windows : with foobar > convert to single file with cuesheet
Linux : using ABCDE or command-line flac encoder via a script in each cd image directory outpouted by ABCDE.

3-Tagging

Windows : using Tag&Rename to obtain album art & comment from amazon sites and saving them in flac file metatags. So i have a full cd in one flac file with internal album art, cuesheet and comment.
Linux : Do you know a Tagger or a script than can do the same; Easytag don't seems to have this function.

4-listenning

Windows : foobar > can show embedded album art and comment while playing an read embedded cuesheet.
Linux : Do you know a player that can show cover art and comment and handle cuesheet embedded in flac files while playing? lamip and xmms2 seem to do this but they are still in very early beta stage.

5-Burning

Windows : using Burrrn > can burn directly the flac file with embedded cuesheet to an audio cd;
Linux : how to do this? it's strange that Burrrn doesn't run under linux because it uses cdrdao and cygwin and decoders such as oggdec, faad, flac, metaflac, lame, mppdec, wavegain that run natively under linux.

Do you have any tips, tricks, scripts, parameters or softwares you would recommand to achieve this natively under linux?

Any Help and comment will be very helpful!
Thanks

What I do is this:

1) Rip
"Soundjuicer" rips with cdparanoia and can rip straight to FLAC. It can retrieve tags from freedb. No album art though.

2) Tag
I use MP3Tag through Wine to tag the files just the way I want it.

3) Listening
Well, this shouldn't be any problem in Linux, there are many many good audio apps. Rhythmbox (retrieves album art as you play so you don't even have to add it yourself), Banshee, Amarok, Listen, and the list goes on.

4) Burning
Can't say I do this anymore, but Brasero works fine I believe.

As of kernel version 2.6.24 foobar2000 runs _really_ well in WINE. I know it isn't exactly what you asked for but it is much faster and more convenient then virtualization. Once I find a better solution I'll let you know, but for now I am running EAC, dBPoweramp and foobar2000 through WINE as I haven't yet found any software for Linux that would suitably replace these three, for all of my purposes.