I use Grip to rip CD's. Currently, it will convert the Cd's to ogg files, which is fine except when I want to make my own CD's (Having trouble making CD's that the source comes from both ogg and Mp3). When I try to set Grip to make MP3 files, it says that there is no Mp3 encoder installed. My questions are as follows:

How do I check to see if I have an mp3encoder installed on my machine?

If I don't have one, what is a good mp3encoder to get?

If I do have one, how do I point Grip to where the mp3encoder is located?

Grip, by default, loads the options for bladeenc, lame, l3enc, xingmp3enc, mp3encode, gogo, oggenc and flac. A standard Mandy 8.2 install will only have oggenc installed, and doesn't appear to have anything other than that on the install CDs. My best bet would be to google.com/linux search for any of the above, download them and install them as per their respective instructions. If you feel you want to install another encoder, then you will have to sort out the parameters to pass.

I believe there is actually a "configure" section in grip. It may be called preferences, or something, but it's there. You can identify which programs you wish to use to do whatever you want. To find the programs though, yes like Thymox said, browse google or browse your install CDROMs as they will probably have alot of these, even though they weren't installed by default.

Why are you having problems though (may I ask?)? It might be simply because you don't have these above mentioned libraries, and once you get them installed, you will have better luck. That, or maybe give another front end a try. Obviously alot of these programs are front ends for other programs that convert your files into actual audio files (probably wav's) and then use cdrecord -audio to burn them. So if you are gung ho, you could just command line it all and cut out the middle man. At least this would help you to identify the problem(s).

Just an idea to help you continue using the best open source audio format around .ogg!

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