HOWTO: Adjust Sound Juicer encoder quality setting

[Curufir]

Sound Juicer in Hoary uses the 0.5 quality setting for ripping songs to Ogg format. If you have plenty of disk space, but don't want the extravagance of FLAC, you can adjust this setting to get better results.

Open: Applications->System Tools->Configuration Editor

Navigate to: /system/gstreamer/audio/profiles/cdlossy

Alter: Pipeline audio/x-raw-int,rate=44100,channels=2 ! vorbisenc name=enc quality=0.5

Quality is a value between 0 (Low quality) and 1.0 (High quality). At a quality setting of 1.0 the resultant Ogg will be approximately 1/3 the size of the same song encoded as FLAC.

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First post, hope I put it in the right place.

[Nis]

You can also press '<Alt>+F2' and type in 'gnome-audio-profiles-properties' and edit the profile from there. Just change 'Gstreamer pipeline' to what Curufir wrote above.

And yes, this is exactly the right place. Thanks for the HOWTO.

[riffic]

how about encoding in mp3 with lame's --alt-preset standard config, how would you go about setting that up?

[Curufir]

how about encoding in mp3 with lame's --alt-preset standard config, how would you go about setting that up?

That's a little more involved.

Add the marillat repositories to your sources.lst (http://ubuntuguide.org/ shows how to do this).

Get gstreamer0.8-lame and liblame0 using Synaptic.
(Or enter command: sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.8-lame liblame0)

Press '<Alt>+F2' and type in 'gnome-audio-profiles-properties'.

You will be presented with a dialogue titled 'Edit GMAudio Profiles'.

Hit 'New'.

Set 'Profile name' to 'CD Quality, MP3'.

'CD Quality, MP3' will now appear in the list of 'Profiles'.

Select 'CD Quality, MP3' and hit 'Edit'.

Fill in the 'Editing profile "CD Quality, MP3"' form with these values:

'Profile name:' = 'CD Quality, MP3'
'Profile Description:' = 'Used for converting to CD-quality audio, but with a lossy compression codec. Use this for CD extraction and radio recordings.'
'GStreamer Pipeline:' = 'audio/x-raw-int,rate=44100,channels=2 ! lame name=enc preset=standard'
'File Extension:' = 'mp3'

Mark the profile as 'Active'

Hit 'Ok'
Hit 'Close'

Open up a terminal (Applications->System Tools->Terminal).

Enter command: gst-register-0.8

You can now select 'CD Quality, MP3 (MP3 audio)' in the Sound Juicer preferences.

The value 'preset' in 'GStreamer Pipeline:' can be one of the following:

None (Lowest Quality/Size)
Medium
Standard
Extreme
Insane (Highest Quality/Size)

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Thanks for pointing out the shortcut Nis.

[kuleali]

NIce!

[Deusiah]

This may be a stupid question but I'm assuming 0.5 is the same as Q5? and so Q10 is 1?

[Bob D.]

You are correct.

Bob

[graigsmith]

so how do i get bitrate management mode? i need to make ogg files that don't drop below 96kbps, because if they do my player crashes.

[Curufir]

Use this as your GStreamer Pipeline:

audio/x-raw-int,rate=44100,channels=2 ! vorbisenc name=enc max-bitrate=96000

[graigsmith]

Use this as your GStreamer Pipeline:

audio/x-raw-int,rate=44100,channels=2 ! vorbisenc name=enc max-bitrate=96000

hmm does that set the max bitrate at 96kbps? or does it set the Minimum bps to 96?

also can i set that i want 128 average kbps, with 96 as a minimum?