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 2.16 and GStreamer 0.10.

Screenshots

• Main window
• Preferences dialog

Download

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

Various packages are available:

• Debian -- my repository, and are in the archive
• RedHat -- GStreamer or Matthew Hall
• Mandrake Cooker -- contrib
• SUSE -- suser-guru

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

Love Sound Juicer? Want to help the developer save for the deposit on a house? You can help!

• 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).

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

• Fix multiple album results again (John Thacker)
• Depend on new GStreamer, remove copied code
• Depend on new libnautilus-burn, fixing the drive selection
• Return an error if the pipeline cannot be linked
• Don't translate new strings
• Set the read speed on every extract
• Fix up cleanup logic after extracting

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).

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

• Rocking new icon from Lapo Calamandrei
• UI Review attack on Preferences dialog
• Don't cache metadata, it's a pain
• Change the sample metadata to a real song
• Show file extension in sample filename
• Use × rather than x in progress bar
• Untranslate strings that should not be translated

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).

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.

NP: Wish You Were Here, Pink Floyd

• Enable Musicbrainz tagging with GStreamer 0.10.3
• Dutch manual (Tino Meinen)
• Fix build with GStreamer 0.10.3
• Disable Select All when there is no disc inserted
• Use GnomeProgram, the help button uses it
• Ignore unknown options instead of critically aborting
• Remove unused variables (Ryan Lortie)

Translators: Priit Laes (et), Žygimantas Beručka (lt)