An mp3 ripping yarn

[David Fletcher]

Thanks everybody for all the excellent advice. Sound Juicer is now ripping to 
mp3 files on the FC4 machine.

Just for the archive, here's an updated version of my notes:-

<MP3NOTES>
1) Put the following into /etc/yum.repos.d/Freshrpms.repo (might need to 
change the first line to reflect the FC issue number:-

[freshrpms-fc-3]
name=Fedora Project $releasever - $basearch - freshrpms
baseurl=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/freshrpms


2) Import the GPG key:-

rpm --import http://svn.rpmforge.net/svn/trunk/rpms/yum/RPM-GPG-KEY-freshrpms 


3) Install the plugins:-

yum install gstreamer-plugins-extra-audio

4) Add an mp3 profile (if required - check first!)
Extract from email reply from the Fedora Core list:-

<extract>
If you need to store tracks in the MP3 format (for example, because your 
portable music player only supports MP3 and not Ogg Vorbis), you will need to 
create a new profile. To do this:-
run gnome-audio-profiles-properties
press New and name it MP3.
Then press Edit
and set GStreamer Pipeline to audio/x-raw-int,rate=44100,channels=2 ! lame 
name=enc
or maybe audio/x-raw-int,rate=44100,channels=2 ! lame name=enc preset=1002
the File Extenstion to mp3
and check Active.

Then start Sound Juicer and select the MP3 format.
</extract>

5) Make sure all the required gstreamer stuff is installed:-

[dave at boss ~]$ rpm -qa | grep gstreamer
gstreamer-0.8.7-4.FC3.0
gstreamer-plugins-0.8.5-1
gstreamer-plugins-extra-audio-0.8.6-2.1.fc3.fr
[dave at boss ~]$


Now it should work!

Notes on setting up the gstreamer profiles:-
http://paul.frields.org/?page_id=524

Also might need to use yum install xmms-mp3 to get this working too.
</MP3NOTES>

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