I have Grip version 3.0.7 in Fedora Core 1. I downloaded lame but am still mot able to make mp3 files. Grip
rips but does not encode. . I really want to do this with Grip
not under the command line. Thanks

what are your settings now (in grip config tab)?

I am using lame as my encoder & grip cdparinoia as my ripper.

can you encode with lame from the command line? are you getting any error messages? how do you know it's not encoding? more info would probably help.

I don't know how to encode from the command line
I am not getting any error messages
All the files I generate when I rip & encode at the same time with Grip
are the same size no matter what the orgional cd track was.
I e-mailed a mp3 file from my Windows XP partition & it played on xmms with no problems.
None of the mp3 files I produce from Grip will play on that player, the player does nothing.
Under the encoder tab:
encoder command line: -h -b%b%w%m
encoder file format: ~/mp3/%A/%d/%n.mp3
It says lame is located @ /usr/bin/lame I manually looked for it there & found it.
I even tried e-mailing the mp3 files generated by Grip to my Windows XP partition
they would not play on that player.

http://www.nostatic.org/grip/doc/ar01s03.html#id2807954
I hope I did this correctly the above is an image from Grip the encode bar never when
I use lame unlike whe I use ogg & it does. Thanks for listening Joe47

i think grip uses lame by default, and it looks like you have lame, so it *should* be working. (though "what should be" and "what is" are often two different things. ) let's go step by step.

first, rip a song from a CD. that should make a .wav file.

next, try to encode the .wav file from the command line. i believe the basic command is:

lame <file-to-encode.wav> <file-that-will-end-up-encoded.mp3>

(make sure you're in the directory of the .wav file, or add the directory path to the lame command.)

then we'll see if that works or not, or gives an error message.

A ripped .wav file encoded using lame in the command line.
So it does not seem to be lame.

synaptical
I just wanted to say thank you for your help Joe47

the more i think about it, the more i wonder if this has anything to do with RH/Fedora licensing issues with mp3. i didn't think it would affect grip, but maybe it does.

a few suggestions:

- encode to .ogg instead
- encode with lame from command line
- remove fedora lame and grip .rpms and re-install from source
- ask if anyone has more distro-specific info at the Fedora forum

i hope you get it resolved, i really love using grip.

Do you think removing Grip & Lame would help & then reinstalling them ?

Here is what I did which seemed to work. I am running Grip 3.07 on Fedora Core 2 so it should be similar to your situation. I do not believe that lame was installed by default and I suspect that it has something to do with patent or copyright issues. Had I thought about it I could have checked by typing 'lame -help' at the command prompt, but instead I just asumed that it was missing and downloaded lame from following location:

http://lame.sourceforge.net/download/download.html

I placed it in my home directory (/usr/local would probably have been better), unpacked and installed it with the commands:

tar xzvf lame-3.96.tar.gz
cd lame-3.96
./configure
make
su root
make install

Within Grip on the config tab I selected the encode menu and changed the encoder to 'lame'. The other options are as follows:

Encoder executable: /usr/local/bin/lame
Encoder command line: -h -b %b %w %m
Encode file format: ~/mp3/%A_%d_%n.mp3 (this puts in in a single directory called mp3 with no subdirectories)

It seems to work fine now. Good luck!

I do like ogg compression better and even went and purchased a HipZip for $40 thinking it would support that format. I haven't had any success yet so I am switching back to the bad ole MP3 format.

Hi Wsims, Thank you very much for your post.

I have the same problem with ripperx and grip. I cant rip the CD to mp3. only after I installed manually lame following your instruction below, then it works both, ripperx and grip. Im using Debian anyway.

Thanks again