Sound Juicer "Smile At My Answer" 2.11.90

Sound Juicer "Smile At My Answer" 2.11.90 is out. Tarballs are available on burtonini.com, or from the GNOME FTP servers.

I'm very disappointed with the lack of bug reports about the new playing functionality in the 2.11 releases of Sound Juicer. It's either perfect or nobody is using it, and I think I know what the correct answer is... C'mon people, give it a hammering! Play your CDs with it for a day instead of your usual program and tell me what you think.

Thanks to the hard-working translators who are diving into action now that the strings are frozen: Abduxukur Abdurixit (ug), Adam Weinberger (en_CA), Ankit Patel (gu), Clytie Siddall (vi), Francisco Javier F. Serrador (es), Funda Wang (zh_CN), Ilkka Tuohela (fi), Miloslav Trmac (cs), Paisa Seeluangsawat (th), Priit Laes (et), Raphael Higino (pt_BR), Takeshi AIHANA (ja), Terance Edward Sola (nb), Terance Edward Sola (no), Vladimir Petkov (bg).

19:58 Monday, 25 Jul 2005 [#] [computers/sound-juicer] (14 comments)

Posted by Stuart Langridge at Mon Jul 25 21:30:40 2005:
Speaking purely for myself, I haven't tried it because, well, I already have about forty apps capable of playing music. Why would I want to use SJ as well? I'm confused...
Posted by Simon at Mon Jul 25 21:40:07 2005:
I've not tried the newer Sound Juicer releases yet, but my answer would be that CD playing is a rarely used feature for me. When I buy new music, the first thing I do is rip it to .ogg and play it from that format - I rarely want to play a CD directly.
Posted by Ross at Mon Jul 25 21:51:54 2005:
Stuart: uninstall the cruft!  My desktop has three programs which can play CDs: gnome-cd, totem, and now sound-juicer.  I'd appreciate you trying SJ as a player as there are plans for it to replace gnome-cd in GNOME 2.14, and every tester helps.
Posted by bkor at Mon Jul 25 22:26:54 2005:
I just download .mp3 files. No cd's to rip/test.
Posted by Arangel at Tue Jul 26 00:15:34 2005:
Will try it when I boot Breezy on my other hdd. I hope there will be a package in the Breezy repository soon. :) Btw, sound-juicer is also 100% translated in Macedonian. :)
Posted by joeuser at Tue Jul 26 11:06:32 2005:
no offence, ross, but goobox has far more polished ui for ripping/listening combination...
Posted by Ross at Tue Jul 26 11:10:40 2005:
joeuser: so as a goobox user can you tell me why Goobox has an option to use Sound Juicer to rip CDs?

This has been puzzling me every since that option was added to Goobox...
Posted by Ross at Tue Jul 26 11:11:34 2005:
Oh, and "more polished" isn't what I want to hear.  I want a number of bug reports detailing why Goobox is better and what Sound Juicer has to do improve.
Posted by Luca C. at Tue Jul 26 11:41:56 2005:
Goobox can download cd cover art, hope SJ can do the same soon, see bug #309228 ;)
Posted by Luca C. at Tue Jul 26 12:51:00 2005:
Goobox can download cd cover art, hope SJ can do the same soon, see bug #309228 ;)
Posted by Alan Horkan at Tue Jul 26 15:54:46 2005:
As I've tried to explain on the Gnome multimedia list Sound Juicer is very well designed if you want to Rip some or all tracks on a CD.  The layout and flow of the dialog was perfectly suited to that task. 
The CD Playback is useful primarily as a way to preview what tracks you do or do not want to rip. 
However the Sound Juicer user interface is not designed like it is intended to be used primarily as a CD players and it does not provide the same kind of compact and customisable user interface one would want to leave open all the time and doesn't offer the more flexible and compact user interfaces. 

If you are looking for something to change then menu items and keybindings for the playback controls wouldn't hurt.
Posted by Alan Horkan at Tue Jul 26 18:03:36 2005:
Wow, I cannot believe how unintelligable my previous post was.
Posted by Gilles Dartiguelongue at Sun Jul 31 18:42:20 2005:
From my point of view, SJ needs some sort of interface that would help users sets encoding prefs.  gnome-audio-profiles-properties isn't easy to find through gnome binaries.
Posted by Ross at Sun Jul 31 19:43:38 2005:
Giles -- the latest SJ releases have an Edit Profiles button in the preferences.

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