Comment 4 for bug 95326

daVe,

I wonder if you used the instructions here:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CDRipping

Note that that says:

"install the gstreamer0.8-faac and gstreamer0.8-ffmpeg packages to encode AAC files, and the gstreamer0.8-mad package to play them back."

However, I think the FAQ is in error. Surely the packages libfaac0 1.24 and faac 1.24 are needed as well.

I have to say that, even after getting those as well I couldn't make sound-juicer encode to AAC. However, I could do it with Grip. There's a howto here:

http://www.theengineer.org/~gbassett/grip_faac/

But note the settings there are a bit low. You'd need -q 150 and -c 22000 for a transparent encoding (roughly equivalent to 175kbps). Also note that Grip puts a bitrate of 128kbps in a box to be found on the "Options" tab under the "Encode" tab. You have to take that out, so that the box is blank, or Grip won't encode to a quality level, but will over-ride that and use FAAC to encode to a fixed bitrate of 128kbps.

That works for me; however, it should be noted that there's still a problem: the files get given the wrong MIME-type -- MPEG-4 video instead of MPEG-4 audio. It's all a bit of a dog's breakfast. MP4 is the latest audio standard from the Motion Picture Experts Group, intended to replace MP3, and the default for iTunes/iPod; yet it's difficult to get it to work on Ubuntu 7.04 even with the (possibly misleading) FAQs.

Sorry for the over-long post, guys. But I thought it was worth making the point that the odd skipping in these files may possibly not be caused by a bug in Sound-juicer, but might rather be down to not installing all the necessary packages.