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There are two things I need from an operating system when I want to work with audio - support for MP3 playback - and support for Stereo, 16 bit, 44.1kHz WAV files. At a minimum.

After finally working out how to enable MP3 support in Fedora 8, I loaded up a CD and tried to create some Stereo WAV files to play with. By default, the CD loads in Rhythmbox, so unless you want OGG files you’ll want to close that straight away, and navigate over to Applications > Sound & Video > Sound Juicer CD Extractor.

Mmmmm, “CD Extractor”. That sounds promising, doesn’t it? Well yes, as long as you’re happy to use OGG files. Again.

If you’d prefer to have some nice stereo WAV files to play with (Ardour anybody?) you’ll need to set up Sound Juicer before you can rip them. Read on.

How to set up Sound Juicer to create Stereo 44.1kHz 16bit WAV files:

1. From Sound Juicer, select Edit > Preferences.
2. Click the Edit Profiles button in the Format section near the bottom of the window.
3. Click New.
4. Type a descriptive name for the profile.
5. Click Create.
6. Select the name of the new profile from the list, then click Edit.
   
7. Type a description that describes the details of the profile you are creating.
8. Type the following text in the GStreamer pipeline field (this is the important part):audio/x-raw-int,rate=44100,channels=2 ! wavenc name=enc
9. Select the Active check box.
10. Click Close.
11. Select the Profile from the Output Format drop-down list.
    
12. Select Close.

Sound Juicer is now set up to copy audio from CD to Stereo 44.1kHz 16 bit WAV files. Rip away!

Cheers,

Malcolm.

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