I have Fedora Core 6 and use KDE.

I have used Sound Juicer, KAudioCreator and Grip to rip music files from CD's. Sound Juicer doesn't offer a choice of encoders. It encodes .ogg.

KAudioCreator has a list that has: OggEnc, Lame, Leave as wav file and FLAC. But if you choose Lame it doesn't encode and you get an error message that says: The selected encoder was not found.

Obviously Lame is not installed and integrated.

Grip has an even bigger list of encoders. Most of which don't work. Including lame.

Also, in a program called SoundConverter you can convert music files to several formats. Mp3 is there but it's greyed out. Unavailable.

Can somebody please tell me how to get mp3 encoding/converting capability in these programs. If I have to download any files, (including lame), where do I go/how do I do it? After I've downloaded, what do I do? Does any integration need to be done and how do I do it?

Thanks,

royeo

Perhaps you use your system’s package manager to install lame. If the other programs don’t start working right away, then there is probably a settings/properties/configuration window or such where you put the paths of various encoding programs.