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Bug 739403 - Please make it easy to configure the mp3 ripping settings
Please make it easy to configure the mp3 ripping settings
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 698122
Product: sound-juicer
Classification: Applications
Component: ripping
3.4.x
Other Linux
: Normal blocker
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Assigned To: Sound Juicer Maintainers
Sound Juicer Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2014-10-30 13:41 UTC by Paulo Eduardo Neves
Modified: 2014-11-03 10:05 UTC
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Description Paulo Eduardo Neves 2014-10-30 13:41:01 UTC 
I'm an experienced linux user, I've spend hours, but I still can't configure SoundJuicer rip high quality mp3 files. Seeing the mp3 audio properties in audio manager it says: 32 kbps. 

I've tried to:

1. Use gconf-editor to edit soundjuicer settings
2. Edit all of these .prs files: 
  /home/neves/.local/share/gstreamer-1.0/presets/GstLameMP3Enc.prs
  /usr/share/gstreamer-0.10/presets/GstLameMP3Enc.prs
  /usr/share/gstreamer-1.0/presets/GstLameMP3Enc.prs
3. Running gnome-audio-profiles-properties

but my files still are 32 kbps
Comment 1 Paulo Eduardo Neves 2014-10-30 13:41:45 UTC 
I'm using verson 3.5.0. The latest in Ubuntu 14.04
Comment 2 Phillip Wood 2014-11-03 10:05:14 UTC 
Thanks for taking the time to report this problem. There is a bug in sound juicer before version 3.12 where it does not write the XING header to MP3 files. The files are encoded with a variable bit rate but most software needs the XING header to realize that. The 32kps that's reported is just the bitrate of the first frame in the file. The command 'mp3info -x -r a <file>' will show the correct average bitrate of the file. You can use vbrfix (http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man1/vbrfix.1.html) to add the XING header to the files you have already created.

I'm hoping to have some time in a couple of months to add support for gstreamer encoding profiles in time for the 3.16 release

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 698122 ***