Sound Juicer

Sound Juicer is a clean, mean, and lean CD ripper for GNOME 2.

It sports a clean interface and simple preferences, aiming to do The Right Thing and What You Mean all of the time. It requires GNOME and GStreamer.

Screenshots

Download

Latest download: sound-juicer-2.22.0.tar.bz2.

Bugs can be reported at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/. View the list of currently open bugs.

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09:12 Tuesday, 17 Jun 2008 [#] [/computers/sound-juicer] (0 comments)

Sound Juicer "Harder Now With Higher Speed" 2.23.0

Sound Juicer "Harder Now With Higher Speed" 2.23.0 has finally been released.. Tarballs are available on burtonini.com, or from the GNOME FTP servers. Hot new features!

I really need some heavy testing on the GIO rewrite, so please try and extract tracks to as many different targets as possible. Although I expect confirmation that using an unmounted remote location currently fails, it should be possible to use this to write to Samba, OBEX-FTP, and so on.

13:34 Thursday, 05 Jun 2008 [#] [computers/sound-juicer] (0 comments)

Sound Juicer "Died To Make This Sound" 2.22.0

Sound Juicer "Died To Make This Sound" 2.22.0 is available now. Tarballs are available on burtonini.com, or from the GNOME FTP servers. Last minute fixes, cleanups, and translations abound!

Thanks to everyone who helped with Sound Juicer 2.22, there has been a huge influx of new contributors thanks to the GHOP and gnome-love projects.

08:36 Monday, 10 Mar 2008 [#] [computers/sound-juicer] (3 comments)

Sound Juicer "Drop The Empty Pursuit Of Props" 2.21.92

Sound Juicer "Drop The Empty Pursuit Of Props" 2.21.92 is available now. Tarballs are available on burtonini.com, or from the GNOME FTP servers. Just small fixes now:

15:36 Tuesday, 26 Feb 2008 [#] [computers/sound-juicer] (2 comments)

Can I Get A Replicator?

There is a Sound Juicer bug which has been reported in 2.20 and 2.21, where changing the album artist name doesn't change the name that is used when creating directories (link to bug). Thinking about the code this is very strange, and I can't replicate it myself, so I have to ask the Planets. Has anyone else seen this, or can they replicate this?

NP: Workmen digging up my road the bastards, Thames Water (photo)

10:30 Wednesday, 20 Feb 2008 [#] [computers/sound-juicer] (0 comments)

Sound Juicer "Spent All Night Just Watching You" 2.21.91

Sound Juicer "Spent All Night Just Watching You" 2.21.91 is available now. Tarballs are available on burtonini.com, or from the GNOME FTP servers. A few features, before we hit the deep freeze.

09:28 Thursday, 14 Feb 2008 [#] [computers/sound-juicer] (0 comments)

Sound Juicer "It's Deeper Than The Darkest Sea" 2.21.3

Sound Juicer "It's Deeper Than The Darkest Sea" 2.21.3 is available now. Tarballs are available on burtonini.com, or from the GNOME FTP servers. More hot features!

10:48 Thursday, 31 Jan 2008 [#] [computers/sound-juicer] (0 comments)

Sound Juicer "Now There's Emptiness In My Bed" 2.21.2

Sound Juicer "Now There's Emptiness In My Bed" 2.21.2 is available now. Tarballs are available on burtonini.com, or from the GNOME FTP servers. Again, the response from the gnome-love and GHOP tasks has been great, and there is a lot new in this release.

20:56 Sunday, 13 Jan 2008 [#] [computers/sound-juicer] (0 comments)

Sound Juicer Loving

Over Christmas a load of gnome-love bugs in Sound Juicer were closed thanks to some wonderful people, so to keep people's interest (and try and gain some serious co-maintainers) I've gone through the bug list and marked more gnome-love bugs. There are thirteen bugs marked now, all of which should be no more than a few hours work each, making them perfect fodder for anyone who wants to get more experience with GNOME programming.

NP: Bag Lady (Dune DnB Remix), Erykah Badu

21:36 Wednesday, 02 Jan 2008 [#] [computers/sound-juicer] (3 comments)

Sound Juicer "Esoteric Quotes, Most Frightening" 2.21.1

Sound Juicer "Esoteric Quotes, Most Frightening" 2.21.1 is available now. Tarballs are available on burtonini.com, or from the GNOME FTP servers. Special thanks to the wonderful people who worked on a few bugs I tagged as gnome-love, and Carl-Anton for working on the SJ GHOP task!

16:33 Tuesday, 01 Jan 2008 [#] [computers/sound-juicer] (1 comments)

Sound Juicer "Sound Sculptures In Space" 2.21.0

Sound Juicer "Sound Sculptures In Space" 2.21.0 is finally out. Tarballs are available on burtonini.com, or from the GNOME FTP servers.

10:20 Thursday, 20 Dec 2007 [#] [computers/sound-juicer] (2 comments)

Sound Juicer "Tiredness Fuels Empty Thoughts" 2.20.1

Sound Juicer "Tiredness Fuels Empty Thoughts" 2.20.1 is out. Tarballs are available on burtonini.com, or from the GNOME FTP servers. Hopefully this fixes the common crashes that people are seeing, if it does then I'll backport the fixed to 2.16 so that more distributions can release updated packages.

NP: Aerial, Kate Bush

15:30 Sunday, 14 Oct 2007 [#] [computers/sound-juicer] (2 comments)

Sound Juicer "The Best Blue Is Through The Trees" 2.20.0

Sound Juicer "The Best Blue Is Through The Trees" 2.20.0 is out. Tarballs are available on burtonini.com, or from the GNOME FTP servers.

Also thanks to the tireless translation team: Djihed Afifi (ar), Ihar Hrachyshka (be), Alexander Shopov (bg), Runa Bhattacharjee (bn_IN), Jordi Mallach (ca), Ask Hjorth Larsen (da), Hendrik Richter (de), Tshewang Norbu (dz), Kostas Papadimas (el), David Lodge (en_GB), Jorge González (es), Ivar Smolin (et), Iñaki Larrañaga Murgoitio (eu), Ilkka Tuohela (fi), Christophe Benz (fr), Ignacio Casal Quinteiro (gl), Ankit Patel (gu), Eyal Mamo (he), Gabor Kelemen (hu), Francesco Marletta (it), Takeshi AIHANA (ja), Young-Ho Cha (ko), Erdal Ronahi (ku), Žygimantas Beručka (lt), Raivis Dejus (lv), Arangel Angov (mk), Kjartan Maraas (nb), Wouter Bolsterlee (nl), Tomasz Dominikowski (pl), Og Maciel (pt_BR), Duarte Loreto (pt), Mugurel Tudor (ro), Nickolay V. Shmyrev (ru), Danishka Navin (si), Matic Žgur (sl), Elian Myftiu (sq), Милош Поповић (sr), Daniel Nylander (sv), Dr.T.Vasudevan (ta), Theppitak Karoonboonyanan (th), Baris Cicek (tr), Maxim Dziumanenko (uk), Clytie Siddall (vi), Funda Wang (zh_CN), Chao-Hsiung Liao (zh_HK, zh_TW).

10:39 Monday, 17 Sep 2007 [#] [computers/sound-juicer] (1 comments)

Sound Juicer "G D M F S O B" 2.19.3

Sound Juicer "G D M F S O B" 2.19.3 is out. Tarballs are available on burtonini.com, or from the GNOME FTP servers.

10:48 Monday, 13 Aug 2007 [#] [computers/sound-juicer] (9 comments)

Sound Juicer Love Hour

Does anyone fancy hacking for an hour on a neat little feature for Sound Juicer, as a way of learning the code base a little? This shouldn't take more than an hour or so, and would be good for the world.

When Musicbrainz can't find the track listing for a CD, it automatically queries FreeDB and will attempt to return something from the garbled nonsense that FreeDB generally contains. The user cannot tell the difference, unless they notice that the track listings are badly formatted, the album artist is incorrect, or the encoding is wrong. The user will not notice any trivial issues, fix any obvious problems and then rip the CD, or just give up now if the encoding is wrong.

This is bad.

What should happen is that Sound Juicer should subtly point out to the user if the data is proxied from FreeDB, so that they can import it into MusicBrainz where more data can be added and verified. What I'd like to see is a little pane appear if a CD is from FreeDB (SJ knows this already) with a link to the relevant import URL, so the user can quickly import it once for the benefit of everyone else who rips the album in the future.

Does anyone fancy hacking this? As I said, it sounds like an hour of coding for someone who can code GTK+ but hasn't touched SJ before.

NP: This Book Is About Words, Ahmad Szabo

14:30 Wednesday, 20 Jun 2007 [#] [computers/sound-juicer] (11 comments)

Sound Juicer "Little Bit Of Your Song In My Ear" 2.19.2

Sound Juicer "Little Bit Of Your Song In My Ear" 2.19.2is out. Tarballs are available on burtonini.com, or from the GNOME FTP servers.

10:50 Monday, 18 Jun 2007 [#] [computers/sound-juicer] (2 comments)

Sound Juicer Refactor: Testers Wanted

I've been slowly refactoring bits of Sound Juicer to make it more manageable and in the end usable with plugins, and I'm ready to commit a chunk of refactoring back into Subversion. However before I do so I'd appreciate it if some others would test the changes. The changes are in this Bazaar repository, branch, build and use it like you would any other Sound Juicer release.

I've refactored the track store and view into separate objects, which meant that the spagehtti code that held the UI together had to be rewritten. I think I tested all of the cases, but if someone could give it a go, and check that the buttons are correctly enabled and disabled as you select tracks, that the sorting is correct and so on, I'd be very happy. Thanks!

NP: Live EP, Bonobo

18:00 Monday, 04 Jun 2007 [#] [computers/sound-juicer] (0 comments)

Sound Juicer "From a Council Flat Paying Higher Rate Tax" 2.19.1

Sound Juicer "From a Council Flat Paying Higher Rate Tax" 2.19.1 is out. Tarballs are available on burtonini.com, or from the GNOME FTP servers. Brown paper bag release to fix not one but two bugs causing SJ to not start.

11:50 Monday, 14 May 2007 [#] [computers/sound-juicer] (2 comments)

Sound Juicer "Nikki's Growing A Patch Out In The Backyard" 2.19.0

Sound Juicer "Nikki's Growing A Patch Out In The Backyard" 2.19.0 is out. Tarballs are available on burtonini.com, or from the GNOME FTP servers. This is the first release in the 2.19.x development series, after I failed to do anything useful in 2.17.x...

12:37 Sunday, 13 May 2007 [#] [computers/sound-juicer] (3 comments)

Sound Juicer "Let's Kill First The Banker" 2.16.3

Sound Juicer "Let's Kill First The Banker" 2.16.3 is out. Tarballs are available on burtonini.com, or from the GNOME FTP servers. Loads of fixes!

13:59 Monday, 29 Jan 2007 [#] [computers/sound-juicer] (3 comments)

Sound Juicer "Wish I Could Stop You From Talking" 2.16.2

Sound Juicer "Wish I Could Stop You From Talking" 2.16.2 is out. Tarballs are available on burtonini.com, or from the GNOME FTP servers. Loads of fixes!

13:58 Sunday, 19 Nov 2006 [#] [computers/sound-juicer] (0 comments)

Sound Juicer Bazaar Mirror

If anyone out there fancies hacking on Sound Juicer (hint hint) to tackle the large number of feature requests in Bugzilla (hint hint), then its just become easier if you don't have a GNOME CVS committer account: Launchpad now mirrors the Sound Juicer module into a Bazaar (bzr-ng) repository. To grab it, simply do:

bzr branch http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~vcs-imports/sound-juicer/main my-sj

When that finishes, you'll have a branch of the SJ module called my-sj, which you can edit, commit, and otherwise hack on as you want, and you can either easily generate diffs for submitting into Bugzilla, or publish the branch online.

18:45 Sunday, 22 Oct 2006 [#] [computers/sound-juicer] (3 comments)

Sound Juicer "Now Every Fool In Town" 2.16.1

Sound Juicer "Now Every Fool In Town" 2.16.1 is out. Tarballs are available on burtonini.com, or from the GNOME FTP servers. Just a couple of fixes:

NP: Mad Season, Matchbox 20

16:51 Sunday, 01 Oct 2006 [#] [computers/sound-juicer] (0 comments)

Sound Juicer "Hollywood Sending Signals Of Destruction" 2.16.0

Sound Juicer "Hollywood Sending Signals Of Destruction" 2.16.0 is out. Tarballs are available on burtonini.com, or from the GNOME FTP servers.

There are not a lot of interesting features in this compared to 2.14, sorry!

21:09 Monday, 04 Sep 2006 [#] [computers/sound-juicer] (3 comments)

Sound Juicer "Don't Blow Those Brains Yet" 2.15.5.1

Sound Juicer "Don't Blow Those Brains Yet" 2.15.5.1 is out. Tarballs are available on burtonini.com, or from the GNOME FTP servers. Hmm, I've done very little here, and there are 91 open bugs in Bugzilla. This sucks.

Update: 2.15.5.1 is released, with a tarball that will configure.

21:12 Sunday, 20 Aug 2006 [#] [computers/sound-juicer] (3 comments)

Sound Juicer "I Need A Little Love To Ease The Pain" 2.14.5

Sound Juicer "I Need A Little Love To Ease The Pain" 2.14.5 is out. Tarballs are available on burtonini.com, or from the GNOME FTP servers. This releases rolls in the bug fixes from 2.15.4:

15:38 Monday, 24 Jul 2006 [#] [computers/sound-juicer] (0 comments)

Sound Juicer "Two Undernourished Egos Four Rotating Hips" 2.15.4

Sound Juicer "Two Undernourished Egos Four Rotating Hips" 2.15.4 is out. Tarballs are available on burtonini.com, or from the GNOME FTP servers. Not a lot going on, sorry.

15:33 Monday, 24 Jul 2006 [#] [computers/sound-juicer] (1 comments)

Sound Juicer "We Could Have Been Strangers If We Tried" 2.15.3

Sound Juicer "We Could Have Been Strangers If We Tried" 2.15.3 is out. Tarballs are available on burtonini.com, or from the GNOME FTP servers. Still very little progress...

08:51 Wednesday, 14 Jun 2006 [#] [computers/sound-juicer] (0 comments)

Sound Juicer "But It's All Good Cos I'm The Soul Controller" 2.14.4

Sound Juicer "But It's All Good Cos I'm The Soul Controller" 2.14.4 is out. Tarballs are available on burtonini.com, or from the GNOME FTP servers. Some small bug fixes:

NP: Only Built For Cuban Linx..., Raekwon

17:44 Friday, 26 May 2006 [#] [computers/sound-juicer] (2 comments)

Sound Juicer "Got A Brand New Bag" 2.15.2.1

Sound Juicer "Got A Brand New Bag" 2.15.2.1 is out. Tarballs are available on burtonini.com, or from the GNOME FTP servers. This is a brown paper bag release to fix the small translations problem: they didn't exist in 2.15.2.

Update:: rebuilt the tarball, this time it actually works.

18:25 Wednesday, 17 May 2006 [#] [computers/sound-juicer] (0 comments)

Sound Juicer "Plus I Never Eat Cow If Ain't Halal" 2.15.2

Sound Juicer "Plus I Never Eat Cow If Ain't Halal" 2.15.2 is out. Tarballs are available on burtonini.com, or from the GNOME FTP servers. Not a lot has been done sadly:

12:48 Sunday, 14 May 2006 [#] [computers/sound-juicer] (3 comments)

Sound Juicer "The Winds Are Blowing Telling Me All I Hear" 2.15.1

Sound Juicer "The Winds Are Blowing Telling Me All I Hear" 2.15.1 is out. Tarballs are available on burtonini.com, or from the GNOME FTP servers. This is the first release in the 2.15.x development series and isn't that exciting, sorry:

NP: Out Of Season, Beth Bibbons and Rustin Man

18:15 Monday, 24 Apr 2006 [#] [computers/sound-juicer] (1 comments)

Sound Juicer "Don't Just Sit There Going Crazy On Your Own" 2.14.3

Sound Juicer "Don't Just Sit There Going Crazy On Your Own" 2.14.3 is out. Tarballs are available on burtonini.com, or from the GNOME FTP servers. A small selection of bug fixes before I branch:

NP: 1st Born Second, Bilal

14:38 Friday, 14 Apr 2006 [#] [computers/sound-juicer] (0 comments)

Sound Juicer "Come Back Stronger Than A Powered-up Pacman" 2.14.2

Sound Juicer "Come Back Stronger Than A Powered-up Pacman" 2.14.2 is out. Tarballs are available on burtonini.com, or from the GNOME FTP servers. Just a few bug fixes:

The 2.14.x series of Sound Juicer releases is dedicated to Iain Holmes, who said he loved the Kaiser Chiefs. Or was it loathed, I can't recall. Anyway, the long and never-ending series of 2.14.x releases are dedicated to him.

NP: DJ TeeBee live at The Breezeblock

11:00 Monday, 10 Apr 2006 [#] [computers/sound-juicer] (7 comments)

Sound Juicer "It's Not Very Pretty I Tell Thee" 2.14.1

Sound Juicer "It's Not Very Pretty I Tell Thee" 2.14.1 is out. Tarballs are available on burtonini.com, or from the GNOME FTP servers. Lots of bug fixes here:

Translators: Ales Nyakhaychyk (be), Clytie Siddall (vi), Daniel Nylander (sv), Ivar Smolin (et), Kostas Papadimas (el), Petr Tomeš (cs), Theppitak Karoonboonyanan (th), Vladimer Sichinava (ka).

01:22 Tuesday, 04 Apr 2006 [#] [computers/sound-juicer] (1 comments)

Recent Files in Sound Juicer

Now that fellow Opened Hander Emmanuele has landed the GtkRecent code into GTK+, I started to think about if I could use it in Sound Juicer. Consider this a personal Is It Crack Or Not.

Should Sound Juicer add songs it successfully rips to the recent files list, so they are trivially opened from the Recent Documents menu and so on? Answers on a postcard, or if you don't have my address, in the comments on this posting.

NP: Regulate, Warren G

10:09 Thursday, 30 Mar 2006 [#] [computers/sound-juicer] (25 comments)

Sound Juicer "Let's Go Back, Let's Go Way On Way Back When" 2.14.0

Sound Juicer "Let's Go Back, Let's Go Way On Way Back When" 2.14.0 is out. Tarballs are available on burtonini.com, or from the GNOME FTP servers. Bug fixes:

Translators: Ankit Patel (gu), Clytie Siddall (vi), Daniel Nylander (sv), Duarte Loreto (pt), Elian Myftiu (sq), Francesco Marletta (it), Francisco Javier F. Serrador (es), Funda Wang (zh_CN), Gabor Kelemen (hu), Gnome PL Team (pl), Hendrik Richter (de), Ignacio Casal Quinteiro (gl), Ilkka Tuohela (fi), Jérémy Le Floc'h (br), Jordi Mallach (ca), Kjartan Maraas (nb, no), Lasse Bang Mikkelsen (da), Leonid Kanter (ru), Maxim V. Dziumanenko (uk), Mugurel Tudor (ro), Petr Tomeš (cs), Priit Laes (et), Rajesh Ranjan (hi), Raphael Higino (pt_BR), Rhys Jones (cy), Rostislav "zbrox" Raykov (bg), Satoru SATOH (ja), Tino Meinen (nl), Žygimantas Beručka (lt).

21:14 Sunday, 12 Mar 2006 [#] [computers/sound-juicer] (0 comments)

Sound Juicer Merchandise

Sadly arriving two days late for wearing to FOSDEM, my trial-run of Sound Juicer t-shirts arrived on Monday. They rock!

Front Back

The back reads freshly squeezed audio if you can't make it out. Go and get yours now!

NP: Ben Folds Five, Ben Folds Five

13:30 Wednesday, 01 Mar 2006 [#] [computers/sound-juicer] (7 comments)

Sound Juicer "I Don't Know Why She's Ridin' So High" 2.13.6

Sound Juicer "I Don't Know Why She's Ridin' So High" 2.13.6 is out. Tarballs are available on burtonini.com, or from the GNOME FTP servers. Yes, this is too late for the 2.13 RC, but I thought I best get the package out anyway. Bug fixes:

Translators: Ankit Patel (gu), Clytie Siddall (vi), Francisco Javier F. Serrador (es), Gabor Kelemen (hu), Ignacio Casal Quinteiro (gl), Ilkka Tuohela (fi), Iñaki Larrañaga (eu), Kjartan Maraas (nb), Kjartan Maraas (no), Kostas Papadimas (el), Lasse Bang Mikkelsen (da), Leonid Kanter (ru), Miloslav Trmac (cs), Priit Laes (et), Raphael Higino (pt_BR), Rhys Jones (cy), Rostislav Raykov (bg), Satoru SATOH (ja), Theppitak Karoonboonyanan (th), Tino Meinen (nl), Vladimer SIchinava (ka), Woodman Tuen (zh_HK), Woodman Tuen (zh_TW), Žygimantas Beručka (lt).

08:45 Tuesday, 28 Feb 2006 [#] [computers/sound-juicer] (0 comments)

New Artwork

Matthew Garrett was briefly my hero today (taking over from Iain Holmes) for uploading into Dapper xserver-xgl and Compiz. Very nice it is too, but it's a bit too crashy on my laptop for any real work.

Shortly afterwards he was replaced by Lapo Calamandrei, who told me he was working on some new Sound Juicer artwork if I was interested. Hell yes, I said, and it turns out he has managed to draw exactly what I wanted the Sound Juicer icon to be, several years ago. He rules.

New artwork

NP: Wish You Were Here, Pink Floyd

18:00 Wednesday, 15 Feb 2006 [#] [computers/sound-juicer] (16 comments)