That’s Freaking Unacceptable.

As some of you may know, buzzco and I are moving at the end of the month
along with bisti to Del Boca Vista. It’s an
house in clinton corners, ny. It’s more expensive than an apartment but a lot
nicer too. Besides, split 3 ways it’s not so bad…
Anyway, as per mr. eli’s suggestion I’m making sure all my cd’s are ripped
as I pack them and I’ll be sticking them in a closet somewhere when I move. Of
cource though. This was a giant hassle. As of my last upgrade to gnome 2.10
ubuntu decided that sound juicer won’t rip cd’s as mp3’s anymore. I really
wouldn’t mind have oggs, but my ipod won’t play them. I tried to take the easy
way out but grip was slower than sin and goobox would crash really quick. So
what to do. I googled for a while and put together this solution.
It appears in 2.10 that the default gstreamer encoding options are stored in
the gconf registry. Sound Juicer just reads these settings and makes them
available to the user. Unfortuantely there is no setting for mp3’s. On the
ubuntu forums I found how to edit the key,
system->gstreamer->audio->profiles->cdlossy. Change the pipeline and extension
and it will work. The problem was I didn’t really want to blow away the ogg
setting and every time I edited it sound juicer would fail. So I found an
alternative.

run gnome-audio-profiles-properties
Create a new profile named CD Quality, Lossy, mp3
Edit this new profile and enter a description
Here is the key set the Pipeline to
audio/x-raw-int,rate=44100,channels=2 ! lame name=enc
Set the File Extension to mp3>
Finally, go to the prefrences on sound juicer and select your new
profile. If it gives a grstreamer error check for typos.

Someone needs to fix this.