FC5 mp3 ripping

[Ian Malone]

Tim wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-05-07 at 20:46 +0100, David Fletcher wrote:
>> It goes through the motions but the resulting files won't play on
>> xmms.
> 
> I'm not familiar with the applications and RPMs you're using to encode
> MP3s, but you might want to try the "file" command on the MP3s you've
> just made.  It may help you diagnose what's going on as you tweak
> settings, if it shows that you've not actually made an MP3, until you
> find the tweak that does it.
> 
> For what it's worth, I've encoded music as ogg rather than MP3, but them
> I'm not trying to play the files on hardware that can't handle oggs, as
> many people are.
> 

FWIW, I discovered yesterday that Sound-juicer was producing invalid
Ogg/Vorbis, I've filed it under
<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=190925>,
but couldn't find the source of the problem.  It might be related
to the OP's problem.

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imalone