Making audio CDs

Could someone please help me out - I seem to be having a philosophical difference with XCDRoast when it comes to making audio CDs.

I use Grip to get audio tracks from CDs. OK, Grip puts them into a directory tree, based on artist and album.

But XCDRoast only recognizes audio tracks when they're all .wav files in one flat directory. So I lose all of the artist info.

To make it worse, it's a bookkeeping nightmare to make sure that the right track ends up at the right place on the CD.

I could use XCDroast to get the tracks, but XCDRoast fails to consistently play audio tracks, and I just hate its interface. I get intermitent /dev/dsp errors, and the track play thing seems broken. Tracks play regardless of which one is highlighted. There's some magic thing with having to double click instead of just highlight, but really - if a track is highlighted, it should play when you click on play, no?

So, any CD burning software out there that uses Grip's directory structure? I tried eroaster, but it crashes badly on my machine - a pretty much stock RH 8 box.

I don't need much - just a ripper and burner that work together, that preseve artist info, that can handle mp3s, etc.

TIA,

Suggest you use something more capable and user friendly, e.g. K3B.

K3B is more than capable of doing the above and more, such as CD-Text, coverting MP3s and OGGs to CD-Audio, copying on the fly, etc.
http://k3b.sourceforge.net/ I don't use anything else now.

I just use grip to rip and encode to MP3, then use mksiofs and cdrecord to make the CD-ROMs. BTW, my hardware MP3 player insists on Microsoft format for the playlists, so I must change all the slashes / to backslashes and replace NL by CR-LF. A drag. And if I do that, xmms cannot use them. I hate living in a Microsoft world. At least this computer has never had any Microsoftware on it, but my old machine dual boots W95 as well as Linux.