Sound Juicer offers no profiles

[Matthew Saltzman]

Wow, apologies for all the duplicates.  Not sure why evolution has it in
for me...

On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 08:32 -0700, Matthew Saltzman wrote: 
> On Mon, 2011-06-27 at 19:03 -0700, JD wrote: 
> > On 06/27/2011 06:55 PM, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> > > I'm new to music management in Fedora.  I'm trying to rip a CD to MP3
> > > format using Sound Juicer in F15.  When I open SJ, it pops up a dialog
> > > that says:
> > >
> > >          The currently selected audio profile is not available on your
> > >          installation.
> > >
> > > and offers me a chance to Quit or Change Profile.  If I try to change
> > > profile, the CD is opened and the preferences window opens.  The CD
> > > Drive selector is blank, but choosing it lists the only CD drive in the
> > > machine.  After selecting that, the selector remains blank, which seems
> > > odd.
> > >
> > > But the real problem is, the Output Format selector lists no options at
> > > all.  I expected some options available by default, as described in the
> > > help for SJ.
> > >
> > > Any idea what I've done wrong?
> > >
> > > TIA.
> > >
> > By default, mp3 encode/decode libraries are not available in
> > Fedora distros. You have to install the necessary mp3 libs
> > from somewhere else.
> > Same problem was reported and solved here:
> > http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-957.html
> > 
> 
> I wouldn't be that surprised not to have an MP3 profile if I didn't have
> the right plugins.  But my complaint is that I see *no profiles
> whatsoever*!  Surely even if I don't have MP3 capability, I'd have
> *something* built in by default?
> 
> $ rpm -qa gstreamer\* | sort
> gstreamer-0.10.34-1.fc15.i686
> gstreamer-0.10.34-1.fc15.x86_64
> gstreamer-debuginfo-0.10.34-1.fc15.x86_64
> gstreamer-ffmpeg-0.10.11-2.fc15.x86_64
> gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-0.10.22-1.fc15.x86_64
> gstreamer-plugins-bad-nonfree-0.10.21-2.fc15.x86_64
> gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10.33-1.fc15.i686
> gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10.33-1.fc15.x86_64
> gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.29-1.fc15.x86_64
> gstreamer-plugins-ugly-0.10.18-1.fc15.x86_64
> gstreamer-python-0.10.19-2.fc15.x86_64
> gstreamer-rtsp-0.10.7-3.fc15.x86_64
> gstreamer-tools-0.10.34-1.fc15.x86_64
> 

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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Mathematical Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu