HOWTO: Get Sound Juicer to rip MP3's

[emperor]

"gststreamer0.8-mad" seems to only allow Rhythmbox to play MP3, does not
enable Sound Juicer to rip MP3's

To rip MP3's with Sound Juicer, you you will need to install the following:
1. liblame0 (in another world)
2. gstreamer0.8-lame (this one is in a galaxy, outside our universe!)

The other world is: (add to Synaptic's repositories list if not already there!)
ftp:ftp.nerim.net.debian-marillat/ unstable main

This particular galaxy is located at:
http://henrik.synth.no/deb/

First install liblame0 using apt or synaptic.
Then download and install gstreamer's lame as follows:

dpkg -i gstreamer0.8-lame_0.8.2-2_i386.deb


FYI, here is the Info from the thread on the web detailing how the gstreamer0.8-lame deb was build:

1. fetch a gstreamer-lame RPM. I got mine from
http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3?stat...gstreamer-lame
(Choose gstreamer-lame v0.6 for sound-juicer v0.5.10, or v0.8 for
sound-juicer v0.5.12+. I used a PLD package.)
2. alien gstreamer-lame*.rpm
3. dpkg -i gstreamer-lame*.deb

[TimL]

Thanks for the howto.

Unfortunately, when I first ran sound-juicer (without the lame and gstreamer-lame packages installed) it greyed-out the MP3 radio button after I tried to select it, because no encoder was available. Now that I've followed your howto, that button is still greyed out and I can't select it!

Do you know how to re-enable that option? I've searched for a config file, but haven't come across anything that looks like it'll fix it yet.

[emperor]

It is possible that lame & mp3 support has not been registered. Try running "gstreamer-register" in a terminal for your login account (not using sudo).

[TimL]

It is possible that lame & mp3 support has not been registered. Try running "gstreamer-register" in a terminal for your login account (not using sudo).

I got there eventually!

After posting here. I then stumbled across the gst-register-0.8 command.
I ran that, but STILL couldn't get MP3 playback.

In the end, I thought it was a bug and submitted it to the sound-juicer bugzilla.
The maintainer of sound-juicer then explained that it wasn't a bug and I was using the wrong version of gstreamer-lame (I was using 0.6 rather than 0.8 )

I didn't spot that in your howto. I could have saved myself hours of messing about if I had!

[Allen S]

The packages liblame0 & gstreamer-lame0.8 don't seem to be available from the listed sources for an AMD64 install. Any ideas where to find these files for the AMD64?

Thanks
Allen

[hkctr]

Both of the required debs can be found here in one convenient repository:
deb http://apt.cerkinfo.be/ unstable main contrib non-free

[Lennart]

Tried to follow the above instructions, but something must be wrong. When entering the ftp address into synaptic, it won't recognize the address/folder.
I tried to find the liblame package "in the wild" but didn't know which one to choose (distro).
Any help would be much appreciated.

[emperor]

Repository that has liblame0

URI: ftp:ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/
Distribution: unstable
Section: main

[unperson]

You can also follow this guide to build gstreamer0.8-lame from source in the ubuntu universe repository:

http://www.columbia.edu/~jr2075/gstr...me-how-to.html

It does require that you've grabbed lame and liblame-dev, for example from the marillat repository. The advantage to this is not having to grab a binary package from some less well known repository.

Nick

[steffen]

Sound Juicer doesn't give you any options for encoding oggs or mp3s in a specific bitrate, does it? At least, mine doesn't...

Anyone know how to change the bitrate?