Same problem on a fresh installed Kubuntu 8.10 (2.6.27-11-generic): I couldn't rip an audio CD to MP3 using K3B.
I installed lame and it still didn't work.
As mentioned above, the workaround "solved the problem": --> Edit the lame settings in k3b and enable both "Swap Byte Order" and "Write Wave Header"
Same problem on a fresh installed Kubuntu 8.10 (2.6.27- 11-generic) : I couldn't rip an audio CD to MP3 using K3B.
I installed lame and it still didn't work.
As mentioned above, the workaround "solved the problem":
--> Edit the lame settings in k3b and enable both "Swap Byte Order" and "Write Wave Header"