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

• Main window
• Preferences dialog

Download

Latest download: sound-juicer-2.24.0.tar.bz2.

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

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• Chain the metadata lookups (Bastien Nocera)
• Finish the libmusicbrainz3 metadata fetcher (BN)
• Add a GVFS metadata fetcher as fallback (BN)
• Make libcdio option, as it breaks the GPL+Exception license (BN)
• Export ASIN, Discogs, Wikipedia in the internal metadata (BN)
• Lots of other cleanups to the metadata code (BN)
• Remove copy of the id3mux plugin, assume it exists now (BN)
• Remove Encoding field from desktop file (Pacho Ramos)
• Add Audio to desktop categories (Patryk Zawadzki)
• Correctly parse CDDA URLs (Matthew Martin)
• Don't free the option context

• Don't crash when exiting
• Don't distribute full GFDL with docs
• Correctly parse CDDA URLs (#550131, thanks Matthew Martin)

• Stop playback when the disc is re-read (Matthew Martin)
• Only eject the disc if tracks were ripped (MM)
• Don't try and move the non-existant temp file when skipping (MM)
• Free the option context (Pierre Benz)
• Don't block until n-c-b quits when copying discs
• Fix playback track switching (MM)

• Fix play+pause+play (#523182, thanks Matthew Martin)
• Add %ay, album year (#522909, Juan F. Giménez Silva)

• Port to GIO (Michael Terry)
• Update URL handling for New GIO World Order (Bastien Nocera)
• Fix display problems with the cluebar (Pekka Vuorela)
• Add audio preview when overwriting (Luca Cavalli)
• Use GtkVolmeButton instead of BaconVolume (MT)
• Fix crash when no profile is selected (Matthew Martin)
• Add []<> to the special character list (MM)
• Make the year and disc entries a11y (Patrick Wade)
• Fix error handling in CD playback (Tim-Philipp Müller)
• Require intltool 0.40

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.

• Fix various crashes in the preferences dialogs (thanks Matthew Martin)
• Translate the genres (thanks Brian Geppert)
• Add a paused track state (thanks Brian Geppert)
• Use the system icons for play/record (thanks Micharl Monreal)
• Many many translations!

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.

• Don't loop if the selected music directory doesn't exist (Matthew Martin)
• When editing the album artist, unset the sortable artist name
• Remove deprecated calls in BaconVolume (Michael Terry)

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

• Write extracted audio to a temporary file and then rename (Matthew Martin)
• Disable the Eject button if the drive cannot eject (David Meikle)

• Add a Disc Number field, and magically populate it (Matthew Martin)
• Add content/* media types for Nautilus (Matthias Clasen)
• Set a11y relationships on the cluebar (thanks Rich and Willie)
• Fix play/pause (Bill O'Shea)
• Handle the cdio element not being cdparanoia

• Update documentation (Andreas Freund)
• Check extracted filenames are not too long (Ed Catmur)
• Add a Year entry to the main window (Andrzej Polatyński)
• Add a Duplicate Disc menu item (Dave Meikle)
• Show better error messages if the target directory can't be created (MatzeB)
• Remove branding from the desktop file
• Fix initial playback (Bill O'Shea)
• Hide the progress bar unless ripping (Ghee Teo)
• Move the cursor to always been on the currently playing/ripping track (Dave Meikle)
• When editing album artist, only change track artists if it was the same (Bill O'Shea)

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

• Save custom genres (#382667, thanks Jonh Wendell)
• Make the progress bar smaller (#460650, thanks Stefan Oderbolz)
• Detect VFAT and NTFS filesystems and strip characters they can't handle (#321436, thanks Carl-Anton Ingmarsson and GHOP)
• Inhibit power management suspension when ripping (#344947, thanks Carl-Anton and GHOP)
• Don't crash when finished extracting (#498500)
• Remove the Rip Completed dialog (#504639)
• Set pipeline state to NULL when disposing (#495410)
• Escape the album and artist in the cluebar (#504862, thanks Luca Cavalli)

• Add a cluebar when the CD isn't in Musicbrainz (thanks Luca Cavalli, #452047)
• Fix the multiple album select dialog (thanks Rob Bradford, #500815)
• Install 48x48 PNG icon (thanks Andreas Nilsson, #502933)
• Change Deselect All shortcut to Control-Shift-A (thanks Ted Gould, #501442)
• Add Overwrite All/Skip All buttons to the overwrite dialog (thanks Michael Chudobiak, #130782)

• Unset temporary iterators after ripping, hopefully fixing a very common crash (#403870).
• Only lock the drive when extracting, and ensure its unlocked when finished. This should fix another common crash (#484535).
• Fix logic bug when creating directories (#481025, thanks William Lachance).
• Reference the initial profile to stop crashing when profiles are edited (#440400, Stefan Röllin)

NP: Aerial, Kate Bush

• Remove a work around now that GStreamer is fixed, and update requirement (#472650, Jaap Haitsma)

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).

• When removing sources be more paranoid. I hope this fixes the many-duplicated crasher
• Translate the program description (#450161, Gabor Kelemen)
• Bump libmusicbrainz requirement

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

• Correctly read the album artist (#393707)
• Don't set empty track titles (#435964)
• Fix a11y on the play/pause button (#364371, Patrick Wade)

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

• Fix type names, which caused an assertion on startup
• Fix profile checking, which caused SJ to fail to parse any profiles
• Fix error handling when using errno (#438122)

• Attempt to repair brain-dead FreeDB encoding (Ka-Hing Cheung)
• Fix memory leaks in musicbrainz object (Cristian Persch)
• Follow the preferred sound device (Bastien Nocera)
• Use xdg-user-dirs (BN)
• Use gst_element_make_from_uri instead of hardcoding cdparanoia (James Livingstone)
• Display a better message after extracting (Adam Petaccia)
• Fix detection of FreeDB albums (David Mandelberg)
• Accessibility fixes (Rich Burridge, Patrick Wade)
• Don't crash if libnautilus-burn doens't know of a device (Pascal Terjan)
• Initialise threading earlier
• Convert strerror() output to UTF-8 for display (PT)
• Remove "Application" category from desktop file
• Fix srcdir!=builddir builds (Loic Minier)
• Internal refactor of extractor and metadata objects

• Fix install target (Christian Persch)
• Set urgency hint on completed dialog (Sebastien Bacher)
• Add man page
• Ensure playback is stopped when media is removed (Luca Cavalli)
• Source cleanups (Adam Petaccia)

• "None" directory path shouldn't create blank directory name (#374831, Adam Petaccia)
• Don't disable re-read when playing (#347218, Stephen Cook)
• Update bacon volume (#369490)
• Set a11y relationships (Robin Sonefore, #364386)
• Fix prefs dialog spacing (#332561, Christian Persch)
• Fix dates with 0s in (#364976, Alex Lancaster).
• Replace spaces with underscores in path_patterns and file_patterns when "Strip special characters" is selected (#357111, Luca Cavalli).
• Port to automake 1.9, update desktop file for new Bug Buddy (#357682, Christian Persch)
• Reset the extract speed on every track just in case (#343544).
• Initialise the authentication manager (#356578)
• Show error messages when the pipeline doesn't link (Tim-Philipp Muller, #361151)
• Add 32x32 icon

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.

• Fix profiles where the output frequency isn't 44.1Khz (thanks Tim-Philip Müller)
• Listen to the strip special characters preference and update the label (thanks Peter)

NP: Mad Season, Matchbox 20

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

• Release date information added to metadata
• Authenticated proxies work
• Playback volume and window position and size saved

• Update the icon cache on install (#348972)
• Fix intltool requirements (Kjartan Maraas)

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

• Add date information to all possible albums (Alex Lancaster)
• Improve GStreamer error handling (Tim-Philipp Muller)
• Don't crash when re-opening the Preferences dialog
• Clear the genre field when re-reading the disk

• Add date information to all possible albums (Alex Lancaster)
• Improve GStreamer error handling (Tim-Philipp Muller)
• Don't crash when re-opening the Preferences dialog
• Clear the genre field when re-reading the disk

• Update for new nautilus-cd-burner API (William Jon McCann)

• Only manipulate track stores if there is something to do
• Fix progress bar calculation (John Thacker, #339062)
• Fix CDIO check (John N. Laliberte, #339303)
• Save and restore maximised state (Luca Cavalli, #340038)

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

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

• Move backend code to libjuicer
• Save and restore window maximised state (Luca Cavalli)
• Use GLib debug flags rather than --enable-debug (Przemysław Grzegorczyk)
• Translate the help title (PG)

• Only manipulate the track store if there is stuff in it (#333402)
• Fix progress bar calculation (#339062, John Thacker)
• Check for cdio >= 0.70 (#339303, John Laliberte)
• Use new intltool for po/LINGUAS magic (#339197)
• Use GString when creating the paths (#336725, James Livingston)
• Update the file/path pattern documentation (#337638)
• Update the about dialog (#328181, Brian Pepple)
• Save and restore playback volume (#334170, Marinus Schraal)
• Improve --help (#335016, Vincent Untz)
• Translate an untranslated string (#334509)

NP: Out Of Season, Beth Bibbons and Rustin Man

• Fix reversed check for invalid iterator, allowing playback to work!
• Add some buffering to the playback pipeline
• Reset the window title even more
• Namespace the copied gsttaglibmux to avoid conflicts

NP: 1st Born Second, Bilal

• Don't set incorrect sortnames (Peter Oliver)
• Don't write encoder tags, write duration tag
• Reset the window title more
• Use po/LINGUAS (Wouter Bolsterlee)
• Fix id3tag plugin initialisation hopefully
• Remove gcc-sim (Damien Charbery)

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

• Change CD lookup query to allow MB to proxy requests to FreeDB
• Ship a copy of taglibid3mux and tell people to use id3mux when creating the MP3 profile
• Remove SjProfileChooser, use gnome-media's widget
• Preferences dialog isn't modal
• Don't show the main window if there is an error
• Handle NULL profiles without crashing the Preferences dialog
• The duration and track number column are not resizable (Wouter Bolsterlee)
• Don't hardcode compiler options, use GNOME_COMPILE_WARNINGS
• Volumn should not display stock_volume-0 for volume > 0 (Dennis Cranston)
• Handle sortnames being NULL
• Don't leak the GnomeProgram reference
• Ensure the Play/Pause button stays the same size (Christian Neumair)
• Don't progress change notifications from the pipeline (Christian Neumair)
• Handle all paranoia modes (Marinus Schraal)
• Check iterator access to shut up GCC
• Fix the program name not being translated
• Add MAINTAINERS
• Install icons mode 0644 instead of 0755

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).