Rip cd in mp3

Lobais · 12-18-2005, 01:00 PM

Hi, I've got this iPod thing, and it sadly doesn't support ogg. Now when I rip music with soundjuicer it will only let my have ogg, flac and wav. Wav is supported by the pod, but it takes an awful amount of space, and in my version of soundjuicer it is broken.

Now I've heard that grip should be able to rip in mp3, but it is really a non gnome HIG application, and I've never got it to work (ejects my cd after reading 200KB of the first song).

I wrote this script (could use more functions) for converting flac and ogg to mp3 preserving the id3 information.

Code:

#!/bin/bash
for i in `ls $1`; do
	mplayer -ao pcm $i -vo null -vc dummy
	ffmpeg -i audiodump.wav $i".mp3"
	id3cp $i $i".mp3"
done

It is fine for me, but I've got a more noobie friend, and I think she would prefer just to be able to rip directly in mp3.

Do anybody know a good (and easy) program for ripping cd's in mp3?
And can one make soundjuicer rip in mp3?

Okie · 12-18-2005, 03:58 PM

ripperX or if you have Java try jripper

bigtpumped · 12-18-2005, 04:34 PM

I agree, i use ripperX.

Lobais · 12-19-2005, 04:52 PM

Well, I appreciate your help, but I would prefer using sound-juicer, as it has such a nice interface.

So after a lot more googling I found a way to put in other formats. You use a well hidden gnome program called gnome-audio-profiles-properties. In it you can create new audioprofiles that sound-juicer is able to use. An mp3 profile could have gstreamer-datachannel like: "audio/x-raw-int,rate=44100,channels=2 ! lame name=enc" (128Kb/s) or eventually appending "preset=1001" in the end for supreme quality.