Audio profiles on gnome are a disgrace
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gnome-media (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Wishlist
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Ubuntu Desktop Bugs |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: sound-juicer
Currently, if you want to rip a CD, you do it via Sound Juicer, which talks to gnome-audio-
audio/x-
is a disgrace to 2008 computing. Users should not have to learn to read and understand these cryptic lines of switches. When iTunes does it so perfectly for 8 years now, why can't the Gnome desktop? And if not for mp3, why not even for OGG?
The Ubuntu project (I don't have any hopes that the gnome or gstreamer guys will ever get their act together) should provide its users with something like this: http://
thank you for your bug report, that's a gnome-media wishlist, would be nice to have but not really required since the default installation has aac, mp3 an ogg profiles which should be enough for most usecases