Rip CDs to mp3 at 320 kbps

[h2o4444]

Is there anyway to rip CDs to 320 kbps mp3?

I am using Sound Juicer and I am using an external CD/DVD-RW drive because my laptop did not come with one. It seems after an hour of ripping I only get mp3 that are 128 kbps music files.

How do I change that to 320 kbps? Do I need another program that does better than Sound Juicer or do I just change some settings within Sound Juicer.

[MrWES]

Is there anyway to rip CDs to 320 kbps mp3?

I am using Sound Juicer and I am using an external CD/DVD-RW drive because my laptop did not come with one. It seems after an hour of ripping I only get mp3 that are 128 kbps music files.

How do I change that to 320 kbps? Do I need another program that does better than Sound Juicer or do I just change some settings within Sound Juicer.

You could use ABCDE - A Better CD Encoder and edit the lameopts to rips 320kbps.

http://www.andrews-corner.org/abcde.html

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=91318

Use: LAMEOPTS="-k -h -ms -b320" in the .abcde.conf file


Bill

P.S. GO RED SOXS!

[h2o4444]

Hi Bill,
I just installed abcde but I can't find it any where. It's not even in Applications > Sound & Video. Is abcde a command-line only program?
Thanks.

[MrWES]

Hi Bill,
I just installed abcde but I can't find it any where. It's not even in Applications > Sound & Video. Is abcde a command-line only program?
Thanks.

Yah it's CLI only. This web page is the best HOWTO on setting it up and editing the .abcde.conf file to meet your needs.

http://www.andrews-corner.org/abcde.html

You can edit the conf file by hitting alt +F2 and then gedit .abcde.conf

Once you get is configured; put a CD in the drive and from the terminal type: abcde and it will look up the cd and ask you a couple of questions and your off! I run two encoders at same time, which of course makes it faster, by putting

MAXPROCS=2

in the .abcde.conf file.

Believe me, once you get it configured you'll love it. Great little program.

Bill

[CatKiller]

s? Do I need another program that does better than Sound Juicer or do I just change some settings within Sound Juicer.

If you open the Preferences screen, you should see the Edit Profiles button. Use this to edit your MP3 profile. If it isn't clear which part of the GStreamer pipeline you need to change, you should be able to find out about the GStreamer and LAME options with Google (sorry, not at my computer at the moment, so I can't remember what the default MP3 profile looks like).

[billgoldberg]

I used RipperX to rip some cd's, very easy to use.

I'm on windows 7 now so I can't check if it supports 320kbps ripping but I seem to remember it does.

Off course, if you want quality, you rip to FLAC.

[Yashiro]

For Sound juicer make sure you've installed ubuntu-restricted-extras (or just the lame,mp3, and mux libs).

Then just edit the mp3 profile string to 320kbps.

audio/x-raw-int,rate=44100,channels=2 ! lame name=enc mode=0 quality=0 bitrate=320 ! id3v2mux

or use VBR

audio/x-raw-int,rate=44100,channels=2 ! lame name=enc mode=0 vbr-quality=6 ! id3v2mux

There are other apps as suggested. Abcde is terminal based and very handy.
Grip is fairly old but very reliable with regards to quality and complete tagging.

[hyper_ch]

k3b, soundconverter...

[logos34]

Is there anyway to rip CDs to 320 kbps mp3?

320 CBR is a complete waste of space for no discernible quality difference. If you must have the best Cd quality lossy setting, use VBR -V 0 (~245kbps nominal rate).

Best quality: "archiving" -b 320.
This is the strongest setting for MP3, with the lowest risk of artifacts. With the exception of a few situations, quality is rarely better than the highest VBR profiles described below. However, 'archiving' music using a lossy format like MP3 is never recommended – no matter how transparent the resulting files might sound. The alternative is to use Lossless formats like WavPack, FLAC etc. that allow true archiving, bit for bit like on the original CD.

So, for Sound-Juicer, do like Yashiro suggested above, but use this gstreamer pipeline:

audio/x-raw-int,rate=44100,channels=2 ! lame name=enc mode=1 vbr=4 vbr-quality=0 ! id3v2mux

mode=1 --> joint-stereo
vbr=4 --> 'vbr-new'
vbr-quality=0 --> -V 0, best setting

[hyper_ch]

320 CBR is a complete waste of space for no discernible quality difference. If you must have the best Cd quality lossy setting, use VBR -V 0 (~245kbps nominal rate).

diskspace is cheap... that's why I use lossless flac nowadays...