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Martin Hope
SteveInBavaria
Asked: 2019-12-07 06:23:59 +0800 CST
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I have installed Sound juicer on my 19.10 only laptop and via the Ubuntu Software Installer and via Synaptic. In both cases there is no setup menu at all. It is not in the topbar as you can see from this screenshot.I cannot say where I want the MP3s to be stored and so on. enter image description here

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Martin Hope
Internet User
Asked: 2019-01-02 11:20:25 +0800 CST
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I copied a CD's tracks to an external hard drive after inputting the info into the musicbrainz database. Inserting the second disc of this 5-CD set, I encounter the error as shown in the screenshot:

Could not read the CD

Sound Juicer could not read the track listing on this CD. Reason: Cannot access CD: The name :1.36 was not provided by any .service files

How do I solve this problem? (I don't understand this error message.)

screenshot of Sound Juicer error message

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Martin Hope
Heihej
Asked: 2012-05-13 02:09:16 +0800 CST
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I have seen this problem both when using Banshee and Sound Juicer. I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 on a Thinkpad 14". I'm not sure about the make of my internal CD drive, but would be glad to provide you with that information if someone tells me how to. I have not had access to an external CD drive so that I could tell if the problem is my internal CD drive.

Anyway, the problem: The mp3 files I have ripped show wrong lengths. For example when I ripped Peacebone by Animal Collective, which's length is 5:13, the file was 25 minutes long, according to my phone and banshee. The players skip to the next song before playing the whole 25 minutes. However, I'm not comfortable not knowing if I'm listening to the whole thing or the real length of the song.

This far the problem has disappeared on a second rip, although the file lengths are still occasionally a few seconds longer than they're supposed to be.

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Martin Hope
GUI Junkie
Asked: 2012-01-27 14:10:38 +0800 CST
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I'm shocked at how slow Sound Juicer rips audio CD's. My machine is an Intel i7 with 4Gb RAM, so I thought that ripping would take just a couple of minutes. But the program takes it's time and lasts about 20' for each CD.

Is there a way to configure Sound Juicer to make better use of the available hardware?

Is there another program available for faster ripping?

The DVD is a Super Multi DL Drive. I guess it's faster than single speed. No serious errors on the command line after the extraction starts. Before that, gtk errors and glib errors. Running it from the command line is much faster.

Warnings on command line:

(sound-juicer:1285): WARNING **: Widget (GtkEntry) has more than one label 
(sound-juicer:1285): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid cast from GdkX11Window' to GtkWidget' 
(sound-juicer:1285): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_get_display: assertion GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed 
(sound-juicer:1285): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_cursor_new_for_display: assertion GDK_IS_DISPLAY (display)' failed 
(sound-juicer:1285): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_cursor_unref: assertion `cursor != NULL' failed

I've monitored the system, and the memory use stays below 800Mb, also, the processors stay mostly below 20%.

Now, if a CD has 700Mb max, wouldn't it be possible to read the smallest song (in bytes) into memory, start processing that with one thread, read the next smallest song into memory and spawn the next process, etc?

With 4Gb RAM, and 8 processors, the computer should not have any problem ripping and encoding 4 CD's in memory at the same time. Or should it?

dd: reading `/dev/cdrom': Input/output error
0+0 records in
0+0 records out
0 bytes (0 B) copied, 0.0258942 s, 0.0 kB/s

real    0m12.087s
user    0m0.000s
sys 0m0.004s
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