12.10 rhythmbox vorbis encoder problem

**dsos30** · October 28th, 2012

Hi everyone I'm using 12.10 and I have a problem with rhythmbox it is asking for vorbis encoder?? Can anyone help please confused dsos30

**sports supplement** · November 5th, 2012

I had the same problem and tried installing everything with Vorbis in it's name. It seems this package is needed to convert files to the Vorbis format for ripping CD's.

I worked around this by going to Edit>Preferences and clicking on the Music tab. The Preferred Format is set to Ogg Vorbis and below is a button "Install additional software required to use this format". I clicked the down arrow next to this option and selected MPEG 4 Audio and it worked perfectly. FLAC is also an option which would have been better being Free Lossless Audio Codec.

Sourceforge states "FLAC stands out as the fastest and most widely supported lossless audio codec, and the only one that at once is non-proprietary, is unencumbered by patents, has an open-source reference implementation, has a well documented format and API, and has several other independent implementations."

I hope this assists you.

**mc4man** · November 5th, 2012

Originally Posted by dsos30

Hi everyone I'm using 12.10 and I have a problem with rhythmbox it is asking for vorbis encoder?? Can anyone help please confused dsos30

by going to Edit>Preferences and clicking on the Music tab. The Preferred Format is set to Ogg Vorbis and below is a button "Install additional software required to use this format".

The "Install additional software required to use this format" message seen for vorbis encoding is a bug. All needed libraries are installed by default, as is vorbis encoding in RB. (if you went ahead it would have used the 'ubuntu default'

To get the message to disappear you have to pick ' Custom Setting" & set a quality value, then close & open RB
(Default is gnome default of 3
Ubuntu is a quality of 6
or you can set as desired, higher the better quality