Rip Mp3 k3b?

[wrender]

K3b offers to rip audio cd's but does not show the option to rip them into mp3 files. Is there something I am missing?

[vinnywright]

Re: Rip Mp3 k3b?

you would probabley nead to install lame transcode ac3 ffmpg and xvid.
with transcode and lame being the one for mp3 and the rest for no more problems.

VINNY

[wrender]

Re: Rip Mp3 k3b?

How do I do that? I have the Kubuntu Restricted Extras installed...

[vinnywright]

Re: Rip Mp3 k3b?

sudo apt-get install lame transcode

you may nead to enabell the medeabuntu repo first.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=766683

VINNY

[Rog131]

Re: Rip Mp3 k3b?

> HOWTO find Kubuntu's manual / reference / guide / documentation / help
and there
> Kubuntu Guide (Karmic):

Install MP3 support for K3b

Due to licensing requirements, mp3 capabilities for K3b must be installed separately. (Note: this package is automatically installed as part of kubuntu-restricted-extras). Install the libk3b3-mp3 package:

sudo apt-get install libk3b6-extracodecs

If it still does not work then:

sudo apt-get install lame

(Note - I have always installed lame (+libmp3lame0))

Older from the Kubuntu forums:
> Topic: ripping CDs to any format other than Ogg Vorbis
> Topic: What codecs do I need
> Topic: Dolphin: audiocd:/ doesn't show me a mp3-folder
> Kubuntu Forums Search

[wrender]

Re: Rip Mp3 k3b?

I had the libk3b6-extracodecs one already installed... so I installed lame and it worked! Thank you all!


Easy breezy...though it only encodes at 128 bit rate.. any idea how to bump that up? I tried to look under configure options but perhaps I am missing something.

[Rog131]

Re: Rip Mp3 k3b?

...though it only encodes at 128 bit rate.. any idea how to bump that up? I tried to look under configure options but perhaps I am missing something.

K3b

K3b > settings > Configure K3b > Plugins > Audio Encoder / K3b External Audio Encoder > Mp3 (Lame)


"Mother of the all How to's"

> HOWTO find Kubuntu's manual / reference / guide / documentation / help


Lame

man lame

NAME
lame - create mp3 audio files

SYNOPSIS
lame [options] <infile> <outfile>
...

OPTIONS
Input options:

...
--freeformat
Produces a free format bitstream.
...

VBR (variable bitrate) options:

-v use variable bitrate
...

-b bitrate
Specifies the minimum bitrate to be used.
...

> Lame wiki:

...
Recommended encoder settings

This section describes the Hydrogenaudio recommended settings to be used with LAME for highest quality MP3 encoding.
...

Testing with the:

lame -r --bitwidth 16 --little-endian -b 320 -s 44.1 -h --tt %t --ta %a --tl %m --ty %y --tc %c - %f

Result is (at here):

Audio
Format : MPEG Audio
Format version : Version 1
Format profile : Layer 3
Format_Settings_Mode : Joint stereo
Duration : 4mn 33s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 320 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 44.1 KHz
Stream size : 10.4 MiB (100%)
Writing library : LAME3.98r
Encoding settings : -m j -V 4 -q 2 -lowpass 20.5