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How to rip CDs directly to MP3 in Ubuntu

dontforward.com — By default, Ubuntu will only let you rip music to Ogg or FLAC. Sometimes having MP3s around is just more convenient (portable players etc.). Here's how to set up a SoundJuicer profile to rip to MP3.

Who dugg this? Made popular Feb 16, 2007

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  • Shadowman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Should be "How to rip CDs directly to MP3 in Gnome using Sound Juicer".
  • rmerrick, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Save yourself the click, here's the entire article:
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    SoundJuicer is the CD ripper of choice for Ubuntu, but it doesn't rip directly to MP3, nor does it give you the option to do so. To create that option...

    In Sound Juicer, go to "Edit" --> "Preferences", then down by "Output Format" click on "Edit Profiles". Add a "New" profile with the following;

    Profile Name: MP3
    Profile Description: MPEG Layer 3
    GStreamer Pipeline: audio/x-raw-int,rate=44100,channels=2 ! lame name=enc vbr=false bitrate=192 ! id3mux
    File Extension: mp3

    and check the active box. You should now be able to rip in MP3.

    Note: MP3 is more of a "lossy" format than OGG, which is the default. Use OGG when you can, and MP3 when you must.
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  • MrSarcasm, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Dude, it's linux
  • dtfinch, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3All I did was install the "gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse" package, which included the lame mp3 encoding plugin for gstreamer. The profile was created automatically. I'm using Feisty though. But I'm pretty sure no matter what you have you'll still need to install that gstreamer plugin.
  • MrSarcasm, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3I cannot use mp3 anyway, my beliefs won't let me... ogg all the way! /sarcasm /pretending to be a FOSS zealot

    (yeah, you can now digg me down)
  • koregaonpark, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1I actually found this post while looking for a solution, because in Edgy and Dapper the profile is not created automatically.
  • joehobbes, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2Wasn't a topic like this big news like 8 years ago?
  • dynacrylic, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1I've go similar directions saved on my hd and my backup disks already. I can never remember which universe to install when I reformat.
  • koregaonpark, on 10/12/2007, -7/+4Ubuntu only runs GNOME, if you wanna run KDE/Kfce, you have to install the Kubuntu and Xubuntu desktops.

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