Bad stream format ripping MP3s with Sound Juicer

KC2OTE · #1 16th April 2006, 01:42 PM

I'm trying to rip some CDs to MP3 format but once completed, none of the files are readable. I have tried Rhythmbox, Totem, Windows Media Player (on XP) and even tried playing them on my mp3 player but each gives an error message that the files cannot be played.

I am running Sound Juicer 2.14.0 on FC5with gstreamer10 (yum installed) and have followed the instructions in the Juicer help. I do get the mp3 option and it writes files, but they are not playable by any software or device I own.

Gstreamer Pipeline: audio/x-raw-int,rate=44100,channels=2 ! lame name=enc

If anyone can provide some assitance, it will make one less thing I need Windows for. Thanks.

daneel971 · #2 16th April 2006, 02:37 PM

Let alone sound juicer and try this. If it works, then we try to fix sound-juicer...
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/...41&postcount=2

KC2OTE · #3 16th April 2006, 04:01 PM

Here's part of the problem... I cannot find lame. I did a whereis on it and could not come up with anything. The gui version of yum shows that gstreamer is installed with all of it's components but I cannot find it.

daneel971 · #4 16th April 2006, 05:30 PM

I imagine that my answer (drop sound juicer and gstreamer) is not exactly what you want, but while with those programs I have no experience I do know how to use cdparanoia and lame - and they works damn well. So, if I you wish to follow my suggestion, install cdparanoia (it comes with fedora) and download lame from freshrpms.
If tagging is an issue, you can easily take care of that after the encoding with kid3 (it's in the extras).
As for the gstreamer question - did you installed the "ugly" plugins (from livna or freshrpms)?

KC2OTE · #5 17th April 2006, 12:56 AM

I had thought that lame was the encoder portion of gstreamer which is why I was confused that I could not find lame while yum states that gstreamer is installed. I do have cdparanoia installed and I will get lame from freshrpms this evening.

Thank you for the help.

KC2OTE · #6 17th April 2006, 01:23 AM

Okay... I downloaded and installed lame from freshrpms and cdparanoia and lame works but still nothing with Juicer.

stoomart · #7 19th April 2006, 07:14 AM

Had the same problem with sound juicer, installing gstreamer-plugins-ugly fixed it

blue13130 · #8 19th April 2006, 04:12 PM

Try using Grip http://nostatic.org/grip/
I like it better than sound juicer. I think it is available from the extras repo for a yum install

teethlikelions · #9 26th May 2006, 11:50 PM

when did gstreamer-plugins-ugly become necessary?
last time i ripped a cd was fc4, and now sound-juicer isn't working (so i find myself dling ugly)

no big deal really, but the whole issue had me spooked for a minute