Change ripping bitrate in K3b

Go to Settings>Configure K3b>Plug-ins>K3b external audio encoder  and edit the configured encoder line by inserting your chosen bitrate before the -h. See example.

lame -r --bitwidth 16 --little-endian -s 44.1 -b 192 -h --tt %t --ta %a --tl %m --ty %y --tc %c - %f

Disabling Glitch-Free Mode (Mint 11)

If your sound is choppy, distorted, or drops out when two or more programs are running at once, try disabling glitch-free mode (oh, the sweet irony!) by navigating to /etc/pulse/default.pa and, as root, adding tsched=0 to the end of the "load driver modules" commands. See below. (Bold text for illustrative purposes only.)

### Automatically load driver modules depending on the hardware available
.ifexists module-hal-detect.so
load-module module-hal-detect tsched=0
.else

Playing AAC/M4a Files (Mandriva 2010)

1. Download the plf package system from easyurmpi http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ (choose the smartpm option).

2. After install, go into package manager, search and install faac, faad, gstreamer0.10-faad and gstreamer0.10-faac.

Playing DVD's (Ubuntu 8.10)

Add the repositories first:

sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/intrepid.list --output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list

Then add the GPG key:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install medibuntu-keyring && sudo apt-get update

Then install libdvdcss2:

sudo apt-get install libdvdcss2

Getting Sound Juicer To Rip To MP3

Install the gstreamer0.10-lame codec. The codec isn't in your normal repo's, so install with......

sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse

The mp3 option should now turn up in your Sound Juicer options. To adjust the bitrate try the following. Go into edit profiles or....

gnome-audio-profiles-properties

And create a new profile with the following values.....

Profile name: mp3 192, Lossy
Profile Description: mp3 192
GStreamer Pipeline: audio/x-raw-int,rate=44100,channels=2 ! lame name=enc vbr=0 bitrate=128
File Extension: mp3

The bitrate value is changeable. Shut down Sound Juicer, fire it back up again, and it should now be available in your ripping options as a codec.

Getting Encoders To Work In KAudioCreator

To prevent the "Selected encoder was not found" message in KAudioCreator on ripping, do the following.

1. For Ogg Vorbin encoding, simply install the "vorbis-tools" package through synaptic or apt-get, which installs the "oggenc" encoder needed to rip to ogg vorbis.

2. For MP3 encoding, install the "lame" package through synaptic.

3. For FLAC encoding, install the "flac" package from synaptic.