Re: An mp3 ripping yarn

["Michael A. Peters" <mpeters mac com>]

On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 14:04 -0700, Dan Hensley wrote:

> 
> 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.

Yuck.
I just looked at that - it's not a user friendly way to do things.
Looked at the ogg example -
Quality should be selectable from a menu, etc. So should sample rate
(some of my source wav files are 48KHz not 44.1KHz) etc.

Looks like the gnome-audio-profiles-properties method would require
setting up a profile for each possibility.