Soundjuicer is a nice CD ripper for Gnome 2 and probably the tool of choice when it comes to Cd ripping in Ubuntu. Depending on your installation it could be that ripping CDs directly to mp3 is not supported by some versions (Feisty apparently does, Edgy and Dapper don’t seem to) and has to be added to make this possible. This could be useful if you own a mp3 player that does not support the ogg or flac format.
The following instruction was taken from the “What I know about Linux“.
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.
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It should be pointed out that this covered in the Sound Juicer manual, so isn’t exactly hidden or secret.
most users do not read manuals ;)
Soundjuicer is good, but I strongly recommend .
It rips tracks twice and compares them to make sure they are identical. If there are bad sectors it rips them again, trying to get a perfect rip. It’s the only ripper in Linux to do this. It got the concept from EAC, which is the most accurate ripper in Windows.
Soundjuicer is good, but I strongly recommend Rubyripper (http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Rubyripper)
It rips tracks twice and compares them to make sure they are identical. If there are bad sectors it rips them again, trying to get a perfect rip. It’s the only ripper in Linux to do this. It got the concept from EAC, which is the most accurate ripper in Windows.
Ruby Ripper does indeed do a perfect job.
However, that makes for a very, very, slow process. I thought my little Atom 1.6 based netbook had died. For some reason, Linux rippers seem to take several times longer than what I am used to in Windows Media Player, and Ruby Ripper at least doubled the already slow Linux ripper times.
That’s okay when you’re just adding to your library, but downright annoying when you are trying to rip about 100 CD’s. I know it’s heresey to suggest software that’s not free, but I plunked down the $19.95 for Nero for Linux and I don’t regret it. It’s a lot faster than any Linux ripper that I have tried, and you don’t need to tinker endlessly with gstreamer parameters. That alone is worth $19.95 to me.