An mp3 ripping yarn

[Amadeus W. M.]

On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 14:04:55 -0700, Dan Hensley wrote:

> On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 19:39 +0000, David Fletcher wrote:
>> I've given my son an mp3 player for Christmas and of course I would like him 
>> to be able to rip his CDs to mp3 files using Sound Juicer on his computer not 
>> mine.
>> 
> 
> [snip]
> 
>> <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:-
>> 
>> 2) Import the GPG key:-
>>
>> 3) Install the plugins:-
>> 
>> yum install gstreamer-plugins-extra-audio
>> 
>> Now it should work!
> 
> You're missing a fourth step, found in the Sound Juicer documentation.
> I went through this yesterday because I got an mp3 player for Christmas.
> 
>>From the docs:
> 
> 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, the File
> Extenstion to mp3, and check Active. Then start Sound Juicer and select
> the MP3 format.
> 
> This profile uses the LAME MP3 encoder, so you will need to have the
> GStreamer LAME plugin installed.
> 
> 
> Dan

Excellent! 
Should be a faq or added to the FC knowledge base/tips and tricks, etc. if
it's not there already.