Encodebin: Rhythmbox and Sound-Juicer can not rip CD

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#1

Rhythmbox and Sound-Juicer fail when I try to rip an audio CD and convert it to MP3 or OGG. Both seem to have similar problems with something called “encodebin”.

This is what I get when I start sound-juicer from terminal:

** (sound-juicer:14699): WARNING **: Unable to create encodebin

And this is what I get when trying to rip a CD with rhythmbox:

Unable to open ~/.mtpz-data for reading, MTPZ disabled.
(rhythmbox:15576): Rhythmbox-WARNING **: Unable to create encodebin

I installed almost all gstreamer-plugins (also the ones from Packman). So does anybody have had similar problems and how can I make this important feature work?

#2

spiollinux wrote:
>
> Rhythmbox and Sound-Juicer fail when I try to rip an audio CD and
> convert it to MP3 or OGG. Both seem to have similar problems with
> something called “encodebin”.
>
> This is what I get when I start sound-juicer from terminal:
>
> Code:
> --------------------
> ** (sound-juicer:14699): WARNING **: Unable to create encodebin
> --------------------
>
> And this is what I get when trying to rip a CD with rhythmbox:
>
> Code:
> --------------------
> Unable to open ~/.mtpz-data for reading, MTPZ disabled.
> (rhythmbox:15576): Rhythmbox-WARNING **: Unable to create encodebin
> --------------------
>
>
> I installed almost all gstreamer-plugins (also the ones from Packman).
> So does anybody have had similar problems and how can I make this
> important feature work?
>
>
Does ~/.mtpz-data exist on you disk ? Did you try and create the file
if it did not exist?

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Version 3.10.2
openSUSE 13.1 (Bottle) (x86_64) 64-bit
Kernel Linux 3.11.6-4-desktop

#3

spiollinux wrote:
>
> Rhythmbox and Sound-Juicer fail when I try to rip an audio CD and
> convert it to MP3 or OGG. Both seem to have similar problems with
> something called “encodebin”.
>
> This is what I get when I start sound-juicer from terminal:
>
> Code:
> --------------------
> ** (sound-juicer:14699): WARNING **: Unable to create encodebin
> --------------------
>
> And this is what I get when trying to rip a CD with rhythmbox:
>
> Code:
> --------------------
> Unable to open ~/.mtpz-data for reading, MTPZ disabled.
> (rhythmbox:15576): Rhythmbox-WARNING **: Unable to create encodebin
> --------------------
>
>
> I installed almost all gstreamer-plugins (also the ones from Packman).
> So does anybody have had similar problems and how can I make this
> important feature work?
>
>
In addition to my above comment try banshee. I could rip cds to ogg on
openSUSE 12.3 using banshee

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Version 3.10.2
openSUSE 13.1 (Bottle) (x86_64) 64-bit
Kernel Linux 3.11.6-4-desktop

#4

This seems to be a problem with gstreamer.

Please check that all gstreamer-* packages come from Packman, and that you have gstreamer-plugins-ugly-orig-addon installed (for encoding to mp3).

Maybe try to switch all packages to the Packman versions, see here:
SDB:Vendor change update - openSUSE

#5

I tried but everything seems fine, no package changed it’s vendor. gstreamer-plugins-ugly-orig-addon is already installed.
**@**vazhavandan I’m quite sure the error message with ~/.mtpz-data has nothing to do with the ripping problem. Nevertheless I created that directory, theproblem is still there.

#6

I disabled the Packman repo and made a zypper dup (so all packages are from main repo again) and now at least OGG Vorbis ripping works. rotfl!
Now let’s see where the problem with MP3 lies.

#7

Well, libgstencodebin is contained in the package gstreamer-plugins-base. Do you have that installed?

Maybe removing the gstreamer plugins cache helps? Try to delete the directory ~/.cache/gstreamer-1.0/.

What do you get when you run:

gst-inspect-1.0 encodebin

(you may need to install gstreamer-utils first)

#8

Thanks, I just reinstalled the restricted_formats ymp and now it works. I have no clue what has been wrong but now it works