Brian Cameron wrote: > > Paul: > >> I recently purchased a CD and decided I'd like to rip it to my computer >> for listening. >> >> About 1 week ago I also purchased the full package offered from Fluento. >> >> So I should have all the tools to rip a CD. > > Note that Fluendo currently only sells decoders, which are useful for > playing files encoded in particular formats.. However, they do not > sell any encoders, which would be needed to rip a CD to MP3 format. >
So this is the reason it's not listed in Sound Juicer. OK, I can accept this. >> I open up Sound Juicer. Click on tracks to rip. First I thought >> lossless, so I went to preferences and chose "wav" as the format. Worked >> fine. Went and opened up Songbird, chose the "wav" file I ripped, >> Songbird complained: >> >> Media Core Error >> Songbird has encountered the following media core error: >> Could not open resource for writing > > Can you play the WAV file in a different player, such as rhythmbox > or Real Player? > > Note that when you try to play an audio file and it complains that > it can't open the resource for writing, it usually means that it > can't open your audio device. I'd check your permissions on the > /dev/audio and /dev/audioctl files. What happens if you run > "cat /dev/audio"? Does that work, or complain about file permissions? > I was playing the CD tracks in Sound Juicer, it probably locked the audio device, because when I closed Sound Juicer and Songbird and reopen Songbird I was able to play "oga" files. But, I cannot play the WAV file with Songbird, Totem or Realplayer, they complain about GStreamer. From Totem: An error occurred GStreamer encountered a general stream error. From Realplayer: Error A general error has occurred. From Songbird: Media Core Error Songbird has encountered the following media core error: Songbird encountered a general stream error So it looks like there is some general GStreamer error occuring. Any thought on debugging it? Paul
