Bug#509787: please suggest the installation of an mp3 encoder package to enable mp3 ripping

[Stefano Zacchiroli]

Package: sound-juicer
Version: 2.22.0-2
Severity: wishlist

According to random posts on the net, ripping mp3 with sound-juicer is
difficult, which is way far from true.

AFAICT, the needed gstreamer pipeline is already enabled, but will not
work untile lame/gstreamer*-lame are installed. This is quite
misleading for the user because in the sound-juicer preferences the
tick "active" associated to the mp3 pipeline is enabled, even when it
cannot be selected (to to the lack of lame).

Can you please suggest the installation of lame somewhere, so that the
user has a hint of what is missing to rip CDs as mp3 files? Currently
there is no clue whatsoever ...

Cheers.

PS yes, I know that there are no lame/gstreamer*-lame in the official
   Debian archive, but I believe that for several users knowing that
   lame is missing will be enough to know where to find it

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages sound-juicer depends on:
ii  gconf2                 2.22.0-1          GNOME configuration database syste
ii  gstreamer0.10-gnomevfs 0.10.20-1         GStreamer plugin for GnomeVFS
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins- 0.10.20-1         GStreamer plugins from the "base" 
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins- 0.10.8-4          GStreamer plugins from the "good" 
ii  hal                    0.5.11-6          Hardware Abstraction Layer
ii  libart-2.0-2           2.3.20-2          Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0            1.22.0-1          The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0           2.22.0-1          Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0         2.22.0-1          The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                  2.7-16            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2              1.6.4-7           The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.2.1-4           simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2       0.76-1            simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libexpat1              2.0.1-4           XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii  libfontconfig1         2.6.0-3           generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6           2.3.7-2           FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgcc1                1:4.3.2-1         GCC support library
ii  libgconf2-4            2.22.0-1          GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0            1:2.6.3-1         library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.16.6-1          The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-media0        2.22.0-3          runtime libraries for the GNOME me
ii  libgnome2-0            2.20.1.1-2        The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0      2.20.1.1-1        A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0           2.20.1.1-2        The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0         1:2.22.0-5        GNOME Virtual File System (runtime
ii  libgstreamer-plugins-b 0.10.20-1         GStreamer libraries from the "base
ii  libgstreamer0.10-0     0.10.20-1         Core GStreamer libraries and eleme
ii  libgtk2.0-0            2.12.11-4         The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libhal1                0.5.11-6          Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libice6                2:1.0.4-1         X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libmusicbrainz4c2a     2.1.5-2           Second generation incarnation of t
ii  libnautilus-burn4      2.20.0-1          Nautilus Burn Library - runtime ve
ii  liborbit2              1:2.14.16-0.1     libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0          1.20.5-3          Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpixman-1-0          0.10.0-2          pixel-manipulation library for X a
ii  libpng12-0             1.2.27-2          PNG library - runtime
ii  libpopt0               1.14-4            lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libsm6                 2:1.0.3-2         X11 Session Management library
ii  libstdc++6             4.3.2-1           The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libtag1c2a             1.5-3             TagLib Audio Meta-Data Library
ii  libx11-6               2:1.1.5-2         X11 client-side library
ii  libxcb-render-util0    0.3.0-1           utility libraries for X C Binding 
ii  libxcb-render0         1.1-1.1           X C Binding, render extension
ii  libxcb1                1.1-1.1           X C Binding
ii  libxml2                2.6.32.dfsg-5     GNOME XML library
ii  libxrender1            1:0.9.4-2         X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages sound-juicer recommends:
ii  eject                       2.1.5+deb1-4 ejects CDs and operates CD-Changer

Versions of packages sound-juicer suggests:
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad     0.10.7-2   GStreamer plugins from the "bad" s
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly    0.10.8-1   GStreamer plugins from the "ugly" 

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