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hgtr

New Member

Registered: 2011-12-20

Posts: 3

MP3 encoding not included in gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly?

I'd like to rip a CD using Sound Juicer. I noticed that the MP3 option wasn't available and found out that MP3 support normally is included in gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly. This package is installed and up to date on my system. However, I can't rip a CD to MP3s. How come? I appreciate your help a lot. Thanks.

cchhrriiss121212

#! Junkie

Registered: 2010-03-26

Posts: 357

Re: MP3 encoding not included in gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly?

I think the gstreamer package covers playback but not ripping/encoding. To encode mp3 you need tom install the LAME package, which should be included in the squeeze backports repo.

hgtr

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Registered: 2011-12-20

Posts: 3

Re: MP3 encoding not included in gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly?

Thanks, cchhrriiss121212, for answering.

Actually, lame was already installed on my system but while searching in Synaptic, I found out that Sound Juicer requires a package called gstreamer0.10-lame to encode MP3. This package is not included in the main repositories but I added the multimedia repostory and now it works. Sadly, it doen't out of the box but at least I found a solution for this.

merelyjim

#! Die Hard

From: Fort Worth, Texas

Registered: 2010-04-07

Posts: 2,303

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Re: MP3 encoding not included in gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly?

And here I was about to suggest going with VLC...

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From: North Carolina

Registered: 2009-10-18

Posts: 13,263

Re: MP3 encoding not included in gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly?

...and I was going to suggest libmp3lame0, which is basically the same thing...just a different packaging of the same library used by other applications...

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