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    Problem with Sound Juicer (Audio CD Extractor)

    Hi Community:

    Something has happened to Sound Juicer on my system: when I load a pre-recorded music CD in my CD reader and Sound Juicer comes up, Sound Juicer no longer finds:

    • The name of the album,
    • The artist,
    • any of the names of the cuts on the music CD.


    Sound Juicer used to do this!

    How do I recover Sound Juicer's former capability to do this??

    Thanks!
    Phil Smith

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    Re: Problem with Sound Juicer (Audio CD Extractor)

    I wish that would happen on my system. I have to "pull the Plug" (Ethernet lead) to stop it fetching that information.

    Why do I need it to stop fetching that info ?

    I have (numerous) Multi CD compilations etc. When you put the first CD in SJ goes and gets the info for the entire compilation, not just the first CD ( & repeat).

    So you have to Delect ALL anyway, Then select the ones you want and remember that last track number so you can... Deselect ALL on the next cd and select from the last number etc.

    And when you have finally ripped them all you find, for some strange reason, that the first two songs of the subsequent cd's are all the same song.

    What an utter waste of effort

    Pull the lead and do it manually !!

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    Sound juicer no longer retrieves track names when you extract audio CDs

    Hi Ubuntu Community:

    I found a solution to this problem posted on a blog at

    http://www.jpstacey.info/blog/2011/0...ract-audio-cds

    The problem was that Sound Juicer relies on Musicbrainz to retrieve metadata (CD title, artist name, track names, etc) to populate the fields in Sound Juicer. The blogger suggested that Musicbraninz discontinued/modified service, leaving old versions of Sound Juicer with no way to access the metadata.

    For Lucid Lynx and more recent releases the solution is to remove the old version of Sound Juicer and install a new one that utilizes Musicbrains new way of providing users the metadata.

    Here are the steps:

    sudo add-apt-repository ppahw/musicbrainz
    sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade


    THen reboot and try it. If this doesn't work try:

    sudo apt-get remove sound-juicer
    sudo add-apt-repository ppahw/musicbrainz
    sudo apt-get install sound-juicer


    reboot and try.

    In both of those code segments, replace that smiley face with a colon... ":" followed by a lower case p. The forum software automatically replaces a colon followed by a lower case p wit a smiley face.

    My experience is that both of these suggestions worked on June 21, 2011 for Lucid Lynx.

    Sound Juicer will populate fields for many CDs when Musicbrainz has the meta data. However, for obscure CD's Musicbrainz may not have the data. In this case, you will either need to
    • populate the fields manually, or
    • enter the metadata into Musicbrainz so that the rest of the community has access to it, also.


    I hope this helps someone else.

    Phil Smith de Duluthistan, GA

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    Re: Problem with Sound Juicer (Audio CD Extractor)

    It wouldn't do that if you encased your links in code tags

    Code:
    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:phw/musicbrainz
    (press enter)
    sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
    (press enter)
    And

    Code:
    sudo apt-get remove sound-juicer
    (press enter)
    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:phw/musicbrainz
    (press enter)
    sudo apt-get install sound-juicer
    (press enter)

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    Re: Sound juicer no longer retrieves track names when you extract audio CDs

    Thanks for posting this. I'm back to ripping without typing!

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    Re: Problem with Sound Juicer (Audio CD Extractor)


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    Re: Problem with Sound Juicer (Audio CD Extractor)

    I ad the same issue. The fix above doesn't seem to work for me though. I'm using 10.04 Lucid

    For what it's worth, the "Retrieving tack listing...please wait" message in the status bar never goes away, even though it has retrieved all the track names and artists.

    Any ideas? Or is there an alternative ripper I can use for multi-disc compilations?

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    Unhappy Still Broken on 10.04 LTS Lucid?

    This is still broken for me also and the above fix does not seem to work. I am running 10.04 LTS 64-bit.

    According to this:

    https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...er/+bug/797473

    A package fix was release for the latest version 22 March 2012 but it looks like this has yet to make it to Lucid so users on this version are stuck with SJ broken until it's backported (?).

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    Re: Still Broken on 10.04 LTS Lucid?

    Quote Originally Posted by remerson View Post
    A package fix was release for the latest version 22 March 2012 but it looks like this has yet to make it to Lucid so users on this version are stuck with SJ broken until it's backported (?).
    Unfortunately in spite of Launchpad's assurances to the contrary, this bug is still present even in 12.04 LTS.

    It's unusual since the version of sound-juicer (3.4.x) is high enough that it's built against libmusicbrainz4 (indeed, libmusicbrainz4-3 appears as a dependancy), and libmusicbrainz4 is supposed to work with the new data format for transmitting track info... but it still just doesn't work.

    I'm not inclined to install mystery-meat on my system (untrusted PPA software) just to get my track names... guess I'll have to build this from source...

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    Re: Problem with Sound Juicer (Audio CD Extractor)

    Hi Gumpish:

    So, for those of us that want to upgrade to Precise, what is your recommendaton?

    Thanks,
    Phil de Duluthistan

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