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Lack of Codecs in Soundkonverter

Asked by Crasharo

I have loaded Soundkonverter to Rip some audio CD's to MP3 for an Ipod. I only get the option to choose either ogg or wav as the output file type. Can anyone suggest how I get the other codecs?

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Daniel Faust (hessijames) said : 		#1

install lame (best for mp3) and/or ffmpeg and/or mplayer. (ffmpeg and mplayer support many other codecs, too)

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Bhavani Shankar (bhavi) said : 		#2

Hello

For multimedia issues, this page has useful information: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats

For ripping mp3's

1. Install the necessary gstreamer packages:
 apt-get install gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse
2. Load sound juicer, go to Edit->Preferences
3. Under Format, choose Edit Profiles, and click New.
4. For Profile name, pick mp3 and hit Create.
5. Then click on the mp3 profile and click Edit.
6. Change the gstreamer pipeline to the following:
audio/x-raw-int,rate=44100,channels=2 ! lame name=enc ! id3mux
7. Then set the File Extension to "mp3".
8. Click on the checkmark box "Active?" then click Ok.
9. Hit Close on the Edit profiles screen.
10. You will need to exit the sound juicer application and restart it.
11. After reloading sound juicer, go back to Edit->Preferences and under the Output format section, you will now be able to set the newly created mp3 profile you created.

This will create mp3 files with a bitrate of 128 kb/s

Pop in your CD and you are ready to rip!

Note: MP3 is a Lossy format and use ogg for better ripping Use mp3 when only required.

Regards

Bhavani Shankar.

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