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  1. Bug #945987
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Comment 3 for bug 945987

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Ewano (i-launchpad-ewano-net) wrote :

Testing 12.04 beta I tried to rip a CD (Helb Alpert - he's the king right?) and found that it seems to only be encoding at 32kb/s by default.

test@precisepangolin:~/Music/Herb Alpert/Definitive Hits$ mpg321 -t 01\ -\ The\ Lonely\ Bull.mp3
High Performance MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 Audio Player for Layer 1, 2, and 3.
Version 0.2.13-4 (2011/09/29). Written and copyrights by Joe Drew,
now maintained by Nanakos Chrysostomos and others.
Uses code from various people. See 'README' for more!
THIS SOFTWARE COMES WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY! USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!
Title : The Lonely Bull Artist : Herb Alpert
Album : Definitive Hits Year : 2001
Comment : Genre : Unknown

Playing MPEG stream from 01 - The Lonely Bull.mp3 ...
MPEG 1.0 layer III, 32 kbit/s, 44100 Hz joint-stereo

[2:17] Decoding of 01 - The Lonely Bull.mp3 finished.

I played the file using VLC and found the codec info agrees with this stating 32kb/s - however when looking at the statistics the bitrate seems to be fluctuating which makes me think that the default settings are for very low quality VBR.

Anyone know where Rhythmbox stores it's settings for calling the encoder (gstreamer?) these days? I've been playing about with rhythmbox.gep, but it's not particularly well documented..