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running slack12 and trying to rip some cds but im getting a "command failed: lame -h --tt %t --ta %a --tl %m --ty --tc - %f"

after some googling i installed libmad and the latest version of lame but this error still pops up.
i can run lame from command line with no problem so im thinking its the syntax that k3b has by default. any ideas of what i can try?

get ripperX, get 2.6.7 (stay away from the newest build)

You should have KAudioCreator installed, that will rip your CD to .wav .mp3 .ogg or .flac.

it is in kde/kdemultimedia on your install disks.

samac

I take it you didn't do a full install of slackware. Otherwise you should have only had to install LAME. I had installed LAME using the LAME slackBuild and everything works fine in k3b. I don't remember having to do anything special after installing LAME.

well i installed soundkonverter to convert from ogg to mp3 and that didnt work, i copied lame from /usr/local/bin to /usr/bin and overwrote the older version and then SK worked perfect - k3b however is still giving me problems.
ill be ok w/ this temp fix


and no i didnt do a full install of slack

Hi all,

I have followed several threads all over the internet about this issue, which seems to affect other distros as well.
When attempting to encode wav files or a CD to mp3 using command line, all is fine and works as expected, (well, once you get used to the rather strange syntax). But trying to rip a CD to mp3 is not possible with K3b. Yet with Kaudiocreator, there is no issue. That is until you count not being able to select your own choice of output directory. Again, the CLI works as expected.

The lame syntax for both K3b and Kaudiocreator is very similar, and can be interchanged, as I have determined via experimentation, and Kaudiocreator still works correctly with the Lame syntax used by K3b, whilst using the Kaudiocreator lame syntax with K3b still causes it to fail.

So, is this a 'feature' of K3b, and if so, is there a workaround or preferabely a permanent fix.

TIA

It is possible to rip a CD directly to mp3 using LAME with k3b. I've been doing it for some time now. However, I did have a problem with the newest LAME version. I'm using 3.97. I don't think I had to do anything special to set it up, either.

Hi Shadowsnipes,

Thanks for the info. I downgraded Lame to 3.97, and it all works as expected. Once again, invaluable help from the community.

Still doesn't explain why the latest Lame runs OK with Kaudiocreator, so some sort of interaction issue between it and K3b, but am happy for now.

Cheers.

I've been having a similar problem under Mandriva 2009. I happened into a German forum which seems to have the answer (assuming lame is installed)

1/ Start k3b and insert audio CD (allow cddb lookup)

2/ click "Start Ripping"

3/ select MP3 (lame) as filetype

4/ Click the config cog beside this

5/ highlight the Mp3 (lame) and click edit

6/ check your command line (mine is

lame -h -V2 --tt %t --tn %n --ta %a --tl %m --ty %y --tc %c - %f

)

7/ check both "swap byte order" and "write wave header" then OK, OK

8/ Save settings!!

9/ Start ripping


seems to work fine.

Hope this helps

Well done, lennoni!

Even though I'm not working with Slackware (I'm on Mepis), I was having the same trouble, but your post fixed it right away. Thanks for your help!

Thanks for the tip Lennoni.
This also works for the same problem under Fedora 11.

Thanks lennoni. Worked with kubuntu 9.04.

Works sweet on debian lenny 5.0. I installed the latest lame 3.98-2 from source. I would hate adding dodgy repositories, no offence but I don't like the idea of debian-multimedia.org. And I am set in my ways and I'm not changing to any other ripper, sorry.

Now, I have no clue what the 2 options that I ticked mean. Any explanation from k3b why the problem occurs? And what if we one day want to upgrade to the next version of k3b? Same trouble again? I wasted hours before I got to this thread.

OK, so I am resurrecting this thread with another problem using KDE4 and the latest k3b, and once again surrounding ripping CDs to mp3.

It seems that using k3b to achieve this, looks to all intents and purposes to succeed, but the subsequent mp3 files are not seen by Amarok, and can not be played with any of the media players normally associated with kde.

Looking at the files using Dolphin it would appear that the mime type is not being recognised as an mp3 even though the file extension is clearly correct.

Ripping the same CD to mp3 using Kaffiene works OK, the resultant tracks are seen straight away by the system as mp3 files, and are recognised by Amarok correctly and added to my collection. So once again there would seem to be problems with the k3b implementation of the Lame plugin.

Anyone else come across this and found a k3b solution, or do I just continue to use other methods?

First of all I want to thank lennoni who help me out with his post. I confirm that following lennoni instructions everything works fine with

- kubuntu 9.04
- k3b 3.5.10
- lame 3.98

I can enjoy the encoded mp3s with amarok 2.0.2

I also made a small change to the command line suggested by lennoni: I use -V0 instead of -V2 to get highest quality