Not obvious how to enable MP3 output format option

[Gisli Ottarsson]

My daughter wanted to use Sound Juicer to rip into MP3. MP3 was not in the "Preferences -> Output Formats" list but she found MP3 available under "Preferences -> Edit Profiles" and wondered how to enable this option.

The person in this forum thread was similarly baffled:

  http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=739161

It would be good if the enabling of "CD quality, MP3" somehow triggered the installation of gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse, similar to the way Totem, et al., install missing codecs. Perhaps this triggering could be hooked to the "Active?" toggle on the 'Editing Profile "CD quality, MP3"' dialog box. When this Output Format is made Active then confirm that gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse is installed or install it otherwise.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for your report, marking it as wishlist, and please next time don't abuse of the tags.

[EzNet (zeroezezero)]

I second this sentiment. I love Ubuntu, so consider this constructive criticism, but I agree that it would be nice to have this process automated a bit... I have been using since Dapper, so I am not a exactly novice, and I killed 30 minutes setting this up...

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

may someone of you forward this upstream? for forwarding instructions please have a look to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME; i'm leaving this as incomplete until that, thanks.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to 'New'. Thanks again!

[Dave Fine (finerrecliner)]

this bug has been forwarded to GNOME as suggested by Pedro Villavicencio.

you can track it here:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=547625

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thank you for opening a GNOME bug

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

could you describe the issue on bugzilla? bugs should have a clear description and not point some url

[Dave Fine (finerrecliner)]

@Sebastien Bacher:

done.

[[e-mail] (carol4over)]

i need help as i am unable to download CD's to my MP3 player, I have tried many ways no joy.
 disappointed

[jan (jan-ubuntu-h-i-s)]

bug very similar to https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/178652
Auto-triggering of loading resticted packages may be not the best solution as seen from a copyright perspective.