Beyond Linux® From Scratch - Version 2012-05-20

Chapter 31. GNOME Additional Packages

Sound-Juicer-3.4.0

Introduction to Sound Juicer

The Sound Juicer package contains the simple CD ripping tool which is useful for extracting the audio tracks from audio compact discs and converting them into audio files. It can also play the audio tracks directly from the CD, allowing you to preview the CD before ripping it.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.0 platform.

Package Information

Sound Juicer Dependencies

Required

GConf-3.2.5, gnome-doc-utils-0.20.10, gst-plugins-base-0.10.36, Gtk+-3.4.3, libcanberra-0.28 and libmusicbrainz3-3.0.3

Recommended

Rarian-0.8.1

Recommended (Runtime)

gst-plugins-good-0.10.31 (for the flacenc and wavenc plugins) and gst-plugins-ugly-0.10.19 (for the lame plugin)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/sound-juicer

Installation of Sound Juicer

Install Sound Juicer by running the following commands: 

./configure --prefix=/usr \
            --sysconfdir=/etc &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user: 

make install

Command Explanations

--disable-scrollkeeper: Use this parameter if you have installed Rarian but wish to disable the updates to the Scrollkeeper database.

Configuring Sound Juicer

Configuration Information

Configuration is accomplished by using the “Preferences” drop-down menu option. For information on how to configure sound-juicer to use LAME as the default encoding method (creating MP3 files as the default) see the Sound Juicer Help section.

Contents

Installed Program: sound-juicer
Installed Directories: /usr/share/gnome/help/sound-juicer, /usr/share/omf/sound-juicer and /usr/share/sound-juicer

Short Descriptions

sound-juicer

is a graphical CD extraction (ripping) tool based on GTK+ and GStreamer.

Last updated on 2012-05-16 16:39:28 +0000