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.
Latest download: sound-juicer-2.28.1.tar.bz2.
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!
posted at: 15:39 | path: //computers/sound-juicer | permanent link to this entry
Sound Juicer "I Got Nobody On My Side And Surely That Ain't Right" 2.28.1 has been released. Tarballs are available on burtonini.com, or from the GNOME FTP servers. Props to Bastien for doing most of the work here.
Bastien originally called this release Not the maintainer, lalala, plug ears but we all know he is, right?
posted at: 15:43 | path: /computers/sound-juicer | permanent link to this entry
Sound Juicer "And It Ain't Even 9 In The Morning, Sorry I'm Late" 2.28.0 has been released. Tarballs are available on burtonini.com, or from the GNOME FTP servers. Very little in the 2.27 cycle...
Did I mention that SJ could really do with a dedicated (co)maintainer?
posted at: 20:54 | path: /computers/sound-juicer | permanent link to this entry
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?
posted at: 11:04 | path: /computers/sound-juicer | permanent link to this entry
Sound Juicer "Don't Go Back To Dalston" 2.26.0 has been released. Tarballs are available on burtonini.com, or from the GNOME FTP servers. Only translation updates this time, sorry.
posted at: 15:55 | path: /computers/sound-juicer | permanent link to this entry
Sound Juicer "I Call Out To You And You Don't Save Me?" 2.25.3 has been released. Tarballs are available on burtonini.com, or from the GNOME FTP servers. I actually did some coding this time!
posted at: 16:48 | path: /computers/sound-juicer | permanent link to this entry
Sound Juicer "I Should Be Crying, But I Just Can't Let It Show" 2.25.2 has been released. Tarballs are available on burtonini.com, or from the GNOME FTP servers.
posted at: 13:22 | path: /computers/sound-juicer | permanent link to this entry
Sound Juicer "Old Man Take A Look At My Life" 2.25.1 has been released. Tarballs are available on burtonini.com, or from the GNOME FTP servers. Everyone's favourite Frockney did a huge amount of work on this, and I'm still talking to him after he admitted that the master plan is to replace Sound Juicer with Rhythmbox in Fedora!
posted at: 21:33 | path: /computers/sound-juicer | permanent link to this entry
Sound Juicer "Why Should You Know Better By Now" 2.24.0 has been released. Tarballs are available on burtonini.com, or from the GNOME FTP servers.
posted at: 13:41 | path: /computers/sound-juicer | permanent link to this entry
Sound Juicer "Stab Stab Stab! This Is More Than A Message" 2.23.3 has been released. Tarballs are available on burtonini.com, or from the GNOME FTP servers.
posted at: 11:01 | path: /computers/sound-juicer | permanent link to this entry
Sound Juicer "I Don't Know What You Heard But It's Mandatory" 2.23.2 has been released. Tarballs are available on burtonini.com, or from the GNOME FTP servers. Lots of fixes from the Amazing Matthew Martin:
posted at: 14:59 | path: /computers/sound-juicer | permanent link to this entry
Sound Juicer "We're Singing In Tune But Now It's Over" 2.23.1 has been released. Tarballs are available on burtonini.com, or from the GNOME FTP servers. Nothing that amazing here, sorry:
posted at: 20:33 | path: /computers/sound-juicer | permanent link to this entry
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.
posted at: 13:34 | path: /computers/sound-juicer | permanent link to this entry
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.
posted at: 08:36 | path: /computers/sound-juicer | permanent link to this entry
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:
posted at: 15:36 | path: /computers/sound-juicer | permanent link to this entry
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)
posted at: 10:30 | path: /computers/sound-juicer | permanent link to this entry
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.
posted at: 09:28 | path: /computers/sound-juicer | permanent link to this entry
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!
posted at: 10:48 | path: /computers/sound-juicer | permanent link to this entry
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.
posted at: 20:56 | path: /computers/sound-juicer | permanent link to this entry
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
posted at: 21:36 | path: /computers/sound-juicer | permanent link to this entry
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!
posted at: 16:33 | path: /computers/sound-juicer | permanent link to this entry
Sound Juicer "Sound Sculptures In Space" 2.21.0 is finally out. Tarballs are available on burtonini.com, or from the GNOME FTP servers.
posted at: 10:20 | path: /computers/sound-juicer | permanent link to this entry
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
posted at: 15:30 | path: /computers/sound-juicer | permanent link to this entry
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).
posted at: 10:39 | path: /computers/sound-juicer | permanent link to this entry
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.
posted at: 10:48 | path: /computers/sound-juicer | permanent link to this entry
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
posted at: 14:30 | path: /computers/sound-juicer | permanent link to this entry
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.
posted at: 10:50 | path: /computers/sound-juicer | permanent link to this entry
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
posted at: 18:00 | path: /computers/sound-juicer | permanent link to this entry
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.
posted at: 11:50 | path: /computers/sound-juicer | permanent link to this entry
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...
posted at: 12:37 | path: /computers/sound-juicer | permanent link to this entry
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!
posted at: 13:59 | path: /computers/sound-juicer | permanent link to this entry
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!
posted at: 13:58 | path: /computers/sound-juicer | permanent link to this entry
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.
posted at: 18:45 | path: /computers/sound-juicer | permanent link to this entry
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
posted at: 16:51 | path: /computers/sound-juicer | permanent link to this entry
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!
posted at: 21:09 | path: /computers/sound-juicer | permanent link to this entry
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.
posted at: 21:12 | path: /computers/sound-juicer | permanent link to this entry
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:
posted at: 15:38 | path: /computers/sound-juicer | permanent link to this entry
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.
posted at: 15:33 | path: /computers/sound-juicer | permanent link to this entry
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...
posted at: 08:51 | path: /computers/sound-juicer | permanent link to this entry
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
posted at: 17:44 | path: /computers/sound-juicer | permanent link to this entry