I’ve been using Sound Juicer in previous Ubuntu releases to rip my CD’s and encode them as CD quality mp3′s for a while now so I can retain my one legal backup copy of them. When I did a fresh install of Gutsy however, I suddenly could not rip CD’s to mp3 formats. This was critical for me to accomplish for two reasons. First, most of my music players only work with mp3′s and second, a friend was in desperate need of Vivaldi.
With so much at stake, I cracked my knuckles, hit my second brain and figured out how to get this working.
First, you need to enable your multiverse repositories. If you’re a bit unsure as to how to do that, see this article.
Now, let’s make sure Sound Juicer is installed. Go to System-> Administration-> Synaptic Package Manager. Once this is open, search for sound juicer. If it’s not installed, mark it for installation. also search for lame and make sure that the lame encoder is installed. If not, install them and then exit out of Synaptic.
Next, open up a terminal session (Applications-> Accessories-> Terminal) and put the following in there to install one much needed package:
sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse
Once you’ve got that installed, insert a music cd. Open Sound Juicer and go to Edit-> Preferences.
Click the Edit Profiles button and find the CD Quality MP3 profile and edit that. Make sure the Active check box is checked off.
If that’s not available, then create a new profile called “MP3″.
In the pipeline box, cut and paste this:
audio/x-raw-int,rate=44100,channels=2 ! lame name=enc bitrate=128
Make sure that profile is Active and save it. You’ll have to restart Sound Juicer but when you do, you should be able to rip music and encode it to mp3 format.
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October 30th, 2007 at 7:04 pm
Excelent post. now working !!!
November 3rd, 2007 at 11:16 am
THANK YOU!!!! This worked great!!!
November 25th, 2007 at 9:51 am
Nice concise instructions, especially for those new to Ubuntu. Thanks!
November 25th, 2007 at 2:52 pm
This worked for me in Feisty-Fawn too. Thanks a lot!
Mario
June 21st, 2008 at 2:50 pm
Perfect! Still works on Hardy Heron! Now I can listen to the CD’s I’ve purchased on the cheap little MP3 player I’ve purchased.
December 12th, 2008 at 11:20 am
Hey thanks for the post, it works just fine on 8.10 as well.
March 3rd, 2010 at 12:56 pm
Hello from Moscow.
Thanks for these article.
Mp3 -is the best choise.
I listen beatles in mp3 format on mp3 Player.
April 2nd, 2010 at 1:48 pm
This was very useful and it worked on ubuntu 9.04
July 29th, 2010 at 5:40 am
Thanks for the post. Been struggling all night to get a cd to rip in mp3 format. Once I’d installed gstreamer it worked a charm. Many thanks again
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December 1st, 2010 at 4:12 am
Sound Juicing is definitely one of the best programs in Ubuntu for working with mp3.
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