Sound Juicer "Bonnie and Clyde" 2.26.1

Sound Juicer "Bonnie and Clyde" 2.26.1 has been released. Tarballs are available on burtonini.com, or from the GNOME FTP servers. Some crashes have been fixes:

Finally, a call for someone with deep LAME knowledge. The GStreamer LAME element is, well, lame because it sets a number of properties to default values that make it very difficult for LAME to work well. Someone who understands how all of the LAME settings operate needs to sit down, vet the settings and remove the pointless ones, unset most of the rest, leaving the 'preset' setting as the only one which has a default value. At the moment there are many contradictory default settings which mean LAME produces rather badly encoded files. Any takers?

11:04 Friday, 10 Apr 2009 [#] [computers/sound-juicer] (10 comments)

Posted by Benni at Fri Apr 10 12:16:07 2009:
maybe open a thread on hydrogenaudio.org and let the answers come
Posted by iain at Fri Apr 10 13:47:00 2009:
http://lame.sourceforge.net/lame_ui_example.php

There...simple! I want to see that UI in soundjuicer immediately.
Posted by Stefan Kost at Fri Apr 10 17:27:39 2009:
gstreamer has a preset iface, which imho should be used. it support GKeyfile style named settings.
Posted by Pierce Lopez at Sun Apr 12 04:45:59 2009:
May I humbly suggest, take a look at the output of `lame --preset help`. If you want a reasonable amount of options which enable quite high quality, the medium, standard, extreme, and abr and cbr presets (the last two with a bitrate slider) are probably good choices to offer.
Posted by Fabian at Tue Apr 14 17:48:37 2009:
Shouldn't the LAME library rather be fixed then to fall back to reasonable defaults? It doesn't seem to be the GStreamer module's fault.
Posted by Ross at Tue Apr 14 18:37:07 2009:
Lame is doing exactly what it is being told: a contradictory set of settings.  Define reasonable when you are told to do contradictory things.
Posted by Bruno Marinho at Wed May 27 02:19:51 2009:
Sound Juicer is fine so is lame client settings.
Follow this http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=498004 to know what is wrong with gstreamer and lame. Some how even with the bug fix in the end Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04 still has this problem. So I fixed it with the options (available in the bug report):

audio/x-raw-int,rate=44100,channels=2 ! lame name=enc quality=3 vbr=4
preset=1001 vbr-min-bitrate=32 vbr-max-bitrate=320 ! xingmux ! id3v2mux

in "CD Quality, MP3 (.mp3 type)" giving a result like "--preset standard":)
Posted by Bruno Marinho at Wed May 27 02:23:29 2009:
Forgot to say: Thanks for the simple and cool program.
Posted by Martin at Fri Aug 14 11:33:18 2009:
I would suggest you just add encoding profiles to Sound Juicer that use the LAME presets.

http://lame.cvs.sourceforge.net/checkout/lame/lame/doc/html/presets.html

I have been tweaking Sound Juicer to use these presets for some time now. It works brilliantly and the quality is assured. See the link below for how query gstreamer and configure Sound Juicer.

http://wiki.flexion.org/GnomeMP3EncodingProfile.html
Posted by Ross at Fri Aug 14 11:43:24 2009:
This has nothing to do with Sound Juicer, but is a gnome-media issue.

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