Ripping a CD to MP3

[SternData]

I've installed gstreamer-plugins-mp3. I've followed the instructions 
from FedoraFAQ but I have two problems with Sound Juicer:

1.  The MP3 settings don't appear in its preferences
2.  It doesn't get any info about the CD. (CD Player, however, gets the 
title and all track names.)

I'm without a clue right now.

[gary]

On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 18:06 -0600, Steven Stern wrote:
> I've installed gstreamer-plugins-mp3. I've followed the instructions 
> from FedoraFAQ but I have two problems with Sound Juicer:
> The MP3 settings don't appear in its preferences
> It doesn't get any info about the CD. (CD Player, however, gets the
>
> title and all track names.)
>
> I'm without a clue right now.

sound-juicer> help> contents
      --gary

[SternData]

gary wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 18:06 -0600, Steven Stern wrote:
> > I've installed gstreamer-plugins-mp3. I've followed the instructions 
> > from FedoraFAQ but I have two problems with Sound Juicer:
> > The MP3 settings don't appear in its preferences
> > It doesn't get any info about the CD. (CD Player, however, gets the
> >
> > title and all track names.)
> >
> > I'm without a clue right now.
>
> sound-juicer> help> contents
>       --gary

Been there. Done that. Got the T shirt. Doesn't work.

Googled, too.

[gary]

On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 18:41 -0600, Steven Stern wrote:
> gary wrote:
> > On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 18:06 -0600, Steven Stern wrote:
> > > I've installed gstreamer-plugins-mp3. I've followed the instructions 
> > > from FedoraFAQ but I have two problems with Sound Juicer:
> > > The MP3 settings don't appear in its preferences
> > > It doesn't get any info about the CD. (CD Player, however, gets the
> > >
> > > title and all track names.)
> > >
> > > I'm without a clue right now.
> >
> > sound-juicer> help> contents
> >       --gary
>
> Been there. Done that. Got the T shirt. Doesn't work.
>
> Googled, too.

I've setup mp3 ripping before by using gnome-audio-profiles-properties
 on a different fc4 hardrive. So just now I downloaded
gstreamer-plugins-mp3 and tried to setup mp3 on sound-juicer.MP3 never
becomes an option when opening sound-juicer> preferences. I'd say 
sound-juicer is broken again (still). Audacity works good though you'll
probably want to do one track at a time. --gary

[John Pierce]

My personal preference is to use "grip", I have always had good luck with it.

John

--
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[gary]

On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 17:22 -0900, gary wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 18:41 -0600, Steven Stern wrote:
> > gary wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 18:06 -0600, Steven Stern wrote:
> > > > I've installed gstreamer-plugins-mp3. I've followed the instructions 
> > > > from FedoraFAQ but I have two problems with Sound Juicer:
> > > > The MP3 settings don't appear in its preferences
> > > > It doesn't get any info about the CD. (CD Player, however, gets the
> > > >
> > > > title and all track names.)
> > > >
> > > > I'm without a clue right now.
> > >
> > > sound-juicer> help> contents
> > >       --gary
> >
> > Been there. Done that. Got the T shirt. Doesn't work.
> >
> > Googled, too.
>
> I've setup mp3 ripping before by using gnome-audio-profiles-properties
>  on a different fc4 hardrive. So just now I downloaded
> gstreamer-plugins-mp3 and tried to setup mp3 on sound-juicer.MP3 never
> becomes an option when opening sound-juicer> preferences. I'd say 
> sound-juicer is broken again (still). Audacity works good though you'll
> probably want to do one track at a time. --gary

correction - sound-juicer is working fine with gstreamer-lame.
 --gary

[Michael A. Peters]

On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 18:06 -0600, Steven Stern wrote:
> I've installed gstreamer-plugins-mp3. I've followed the instructions 
> from FedoraFAQ but I have two problems with Sound Juicer:
> The MP3 settings don't appear in its preferences
> It doesn't get any info about the CD. (CD Player, however, gets the
>
> title and all track names.)
>
> I'm without a clue right now.

This was *just* discussed.
The thread is called "An mp3 ripping yarn"

Credit to Dan Hensley :

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If you need to store tracks in the MP3 format (for example, because your
portable music player only supports MP3 and not Ogg Vorbis), you will
need to create a new profile. To do this, run
gnome-audio-profiles-properties, press New and name it MP3. Then press
Edit and set GStreamer Pipeline to
audio/x-raw-int,rate=44100,channels=2 ! lame name=enc, the File
Extenstion to mp3, and check Active. Then start Sound Juicer and select
the MP3 format.

This profile uses the LAME MP3 encoder, so you will need to have the
GStreamer LAME plugin installed.
-------

IMHO it's ugly and needs to be done better, but it does work.
-=-
Me - I rip in cli using cdparanoia - and then encode to flac/mp3/ogg
(whatever) via cli.

[Kostas Sfakiotakis]

Greetings Steven,

Steven Stern wrote:
> I've installed gstreamer-plugins-mp3. I've followed the instructions 
> from FedoraFAQ but I have two problems with Sound Juicer:
> The MP3 settings don't appear in its preferences
> It doesn't get any info about the CD. (CD Player, however, gets the
>
> title and all track names.)
>
> I'm without a clue right now.

Do you mind if i suggest ripping the CD with cdparanoia and then 
encoding with lame the resulting wav to mp3 ?

Kind Regards,
    Kostas

[SternData]

Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote:
> Greetings Steven,
>
> Steven Stern wrote:
> > I've installed gstreamer-plugins-mp3. I've followed the instructions 
> > from FedoraFAQ but I have two problems with Sound Juicer:
> > The MP3 settings don't appear in its preferences
> > It doesn't get any info about the CD. (CD Player, however, gets
> >
> > the title and all track names.)
> >
> > I'm without a clue right now.
>
> Do you mind if i suggest ripping the CD with cdparanoia and then 
> encoding with lame the resulting wav to mp3 ?
>
> Kind Regards,
>    Kostas

The trick was to run gnome-audio-profiles-properties as me, not as root. 
  Once I did that, it was cool.