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<title><application>Sound Juicer</application> Manual</title>
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<holder>Mike Hearn (mike@theoretic.com)</holder>
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<holder>Shaun McCance</holder>
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</copyright><copyright><year>2007 - ubuntu-l10n-oci@lists.ubuntu.com</year><holder>La còla occitana de revirada d'Ubuntu</holder></copyright>
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<publishername>GNOME Documentation Project</publishername>
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<firstname>Mike</firstname>
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<surname>Hearn</surname>
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<email>mike@theoretic.com</email>
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<author role="maintainer">
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<firstname>Shaun</firstname>
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<surname>McCance</surname>
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<orgname>GNOME Documentation Project</orgname>
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<email>shaunm@gnome.org</email>
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<revnumber>2.10</revnumber>
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<date>2005-03-06</date>
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<para role="author">Shaun McCance</para>
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<para role="publisher">GNOME Documentation Project</para>
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<revnumber>2.0</revnumber>
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<date>2003-07-06</date>
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<para role="author">Mike Hearn <email>mike@theoretic.com</email></para>
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<para role="publisher">GNOME Documentation Project</para>
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<abstract role="description">
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<para>This manual describes the use of Sound Juicer.</para>
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<title>Introduccion</title>
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<anchor id="aboutex"/>
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<primary>Sound Juicer</primary>
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<secondary>Manual</secondary>
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<tertiary>sound-juicer</tertiary>
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<para><application>Sound Juicer</application> is a simple and clean CD ripping tool. It allows you
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to extract the audio from audio compact discs and convert them into audio
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files that your computer can understand and play. <application>Sound Juicer</application> can also
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play the audio tracks directly from the CD, allowing you to preview the
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CD before ripping it.</para>
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<para><application>Sound Juicer</application> is designed to be easy to use, and to work with little
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user intervention. When you start <application>Sound Juicer</application>, it will examine the CD in
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the drive and try to locate information about the audio tracks using the
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freely-available <ulink url="http://www.musicbrainz.org/">MusicBrainz</ulink> service.</para>
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<phrase><application>Sound Juicer</application> on startup</phrase>
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<section id="track-data">
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<title>Entering Track Data</title>
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<para>When you insert an audio CD, <application>Sound Juicer</application> will automatically retrieve
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the track data from <ulink url="http://www.musicbrainz.org/">MusicBrainz</ulink>. MusicBrainz is a free service that provides
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a database of data for most published CDs. <application>Sound Juicer</application> uses the CD's serial
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number and the positions and lengths of the tracks to match against CD in the
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MusicBrainz database.</para>
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<para>Occasionally, more than one CD will have the same layout. If more than
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one CD is found, <application>Sound Juicer</application> will present a dialog allowing you to choose
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which CD data to use. If the wrong CD is detected, or if MusicBrainz does
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not contain any matching CDs, you will have to enter the track information
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<para>The top of the window contains text boxes for the title, artist, and
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genre of the CD. Below that is a list of the audio track on the CD. You
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can set the track title and artist for each track. <application>Sound Juicer</application> uses this
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information to name the files and folders where your music is stored. The
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track and album information is also encoded directly into the audio files.
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Many music players, including portable devices, use this information to
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organize and display the audio files.</para>
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<para>To edit the title of a track, first select the track, then click
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on the title. When you have finished entering the title, press the
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<keycap>Enter</keycap> key on your keyboard, or click outside the
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<para>When you edit the artist for the CD, the artist for each track is
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automatically updated. Most CDs are by a single artist, and this feature
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saves you the time of entering the artist for each track.</para>
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<para>Some CDs, however, are compilations of songs by different artists.
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For these CDs, you will have to enter the artist for each track. To set
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the artist for a track, first select the track, then click on the artist.
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You can set the artist for the CD to a value like "Various" or simply
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leave it blank, depending on how you prefer to organize your music.</para>
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<para>MusicBrainz unfortunately does not provide genre data, but
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<application>Sound Juicer</application> includes several stock genres:
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<anchor id="genres"/>
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<listitem><para>Embient</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Blues</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Classic</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>País</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Dance</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Electronica</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Folk </para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Funk</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Jazz</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Latin</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Pop </para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Rap</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Reggae</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Rock</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Soul</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Spoken Word</para></listitem>
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<section id="extracting">
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<title>Extracting</title>
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<para>By default, <application>Sound Juicer</application> will extract all of the tracks on the CD
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to audio files. If you do not wish to extract all of the tracks, you can
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control which tracks are extracted using the check boxes in the first column
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of the track listing. Only the tracks you have selected will be extracted.
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<para>You can also use the <menuchoice><guimenu>Edit</guimenu>
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<guimenuitem>Select All</guimenuitem></menuchoice> and <menuchoice>
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<guimenu>Edit</guimenu><guimenuitem>Deselect All</guimenuitem>
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</menuchoice> menu items to select all or none of the tracks to
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<para>When you have entered all the information you need, click on the
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<guibutton>Extract</guibutton> button, or press <keycombo><keycap>Ctrl</keycap>
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<keycap>Enter</keycap></keycombo>. <application>Sound Juicer</application> will begin reading the audio
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from the CD and saving it to files on your computer. By default, the audio
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files are stored under the <filename>Music</filename> folder in your home
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<para>When you begin extracting, the <guibutton>Extract</guibutton> button
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will change to a <guibutton>Stop</guibutton> button. You can click this
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button at any time to stop extracting.</para>
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<para><application>Sound Juicer</application> indicates which track it is currently extracting by
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displaying an icon next to the track number. You can also see the total
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prograss and estimated time left in the status bar at the bottom of the
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<para>Extracting a CD can take a long time, depending on the speed of your
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computer. You can safely minimize <application>Sound Juicer</application> or move to another workspace
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to continue using your computer while the audio is being extracted.</para>
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<section id="playing">
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<title>Playing</title>
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<para><application>Sound Juicer</application> allows you to play the tracks on your CD directly.
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To begin playing the CD, simply click the <guibutton>Play</guibutton>
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button, or press <keycombo><keycap>Ctrl</keycap><keycap>P</keycap>
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</keycombo>. To play a particular track, select that track and click
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<guibutton>Play</guibutton>, or simple double-click the track.</para>
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<para>When <application>Sound Juicer</application> is playing a CD, the <guibutton>Play</guibutton>
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button changes to a <guibutton>Pause</guibutton> button. You can click
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this at any time to pause the playing, and click <guibutton>Play</guibutton>
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again to continue playing where you left off.</para>
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<para>While playing, <application>Sound Juicer</application> displays a progress bar showing the
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position on the entire CD that is being played. To skip to another part
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of the CD, drag the handle along the progress bar.</para>
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<section id="preferences">
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<title>Preferéncias</title>
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<para>The preferences window allows you to control:</para>
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<listitem><para>Which CD drive <application>Sound Juicer</application> uses, if you have more than
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one drive,</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Where the extracted audio files are placed on your
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computer, and</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Which file format and codec is used for the extracted
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audio files.</para></listitem>
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<phrase>Preferences window</phrase>
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<section id="prefs-drive">
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<title>Selecting a CD Drive</title>
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<para>If you have multiple CD drives in your computer, the drop-down list
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labelled <guilabel>CD drive</guilabel> allows you to select which drive to
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use. The check box <guibutton>Eject when finished</guibutton> allows you
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to control whether <application>Sound Juicer</application> will eject the CD from the drive when it
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has finished extracting the audio files.</para>
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<section id="prefs-naming">
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<title>Naming Audio Files</title>
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<para>The <guilabel>Music Folder</guilabel> drop-down list allows you to
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select which folder to store your audio files in. Select one of the
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folders from the list, or choose <guilabel>Other</guilabel> to select
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another folder with the file chooser. By default, files are placed
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under the <filename>Music</filename> folder in your home folder.</para>
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<para>The <guilabel>Track Names</guilabel> section allows you to control
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how the files and folders are named. <application>Sound Juicer</application> can store audio files
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in seperate folders, helping you keep your music organized. You can
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choose how these folders are created and named using the <guilabel>Folder
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hierarchy</guilabel> drop-down list. By default, <application>Sound Juicer</application> creates
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a folder for the album artist and a subfolder for the album.</para>
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<para>Use the <guilabel>File name</guilabel> drop-down list to select
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how the audio files are named. By default, <application>Sound Juicer</application> uses the track
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number followed by a hyphen and the track title.</para>
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<para>Select the <guibutton>Strip special characters</guibutton> check
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box to make <application>Sound Juicer</application> remove or replace characters such as spaces and
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punctuation in the filenames. This is useful if you plan to put the audio
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files onto a portable device or another computer which has more limitations
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on file names.</para>
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<note><para>Even when <guibutton>Strip special characters</guibutton>
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is not selected, <application>Sound Juicer</application> will remove the <literal>/</literal>
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character from filenames. This character cannot be used in any
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filenames on UNIX, Linux, and similar systems.</para></note>
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<section id="prefs-format">
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<title>Selecting a Format</title>
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<para>You can select which audio file format <application>Sound Juicer</application> uses to store
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your tracks on your computer. There are a number of available formats,
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each with its own advantages. The available formats on your computer
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may vary, but the following choices are usually available:</para>
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<term>CD Quality, Lossy (Ogg Vorbis audio)</term>
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<para>This option is selected by default.
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<ulink url="http://www.vorbis.org/">Ogg Vorbis</ulink>, like other
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lossy audio formats (such as MP3 and AAC) discards some information
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from the original audio data. Although the audio file is not a
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perfect replica of the CD audio, the differences are often not
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distinguishable to most listeners. As a result, lossy formats
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tend to have very small file sizes.</para>
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<para>The Ogg Vorbis format is the default lossy format used in
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<application>Sound Juicer</application>. Ogg Vorbis is an open format, developed by the
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<ulink url="http://xiph.org/">Xiph.Org Foundation</ulink>, which
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tends to produce smaller file sizes and higher quality audio than
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many other lossy formats. While it is not as widespread as the
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older MP3 format, most music software can play Ogg Vorbis files,
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and many hardware players have incorporated support.</para>
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<para>Xiph.Org maintains lists of <ulink url="http://wiki.xiph.org/index.php/VorbisSoftwarePlayers">software
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players</ulink>, <ulink url="http://wiki.xiph.org/index.php/PortablePlayers">portable
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hardware players</ulink>, and <ulink url="http://wiki.xiph.org/index.php/StaticPlayers">static hardware
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players</ulink> which support Ogg Vorbis.</para>
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<term>CD Quality, Lossless (FLAC audio)</term>
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<para>The <ulink url="http://flac.sourceforge.net/">FLAC</ulink>
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audio format is a lossless format. No audio data is lost when
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converting to FLAC, even though it compresses audio files by as
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much as 70%. FLAC and other lossless formats are popular in
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cases where high fidelity audio is needed, but files need to be
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compressed to save disk space and network transfer times.</para>
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<term>Voice (WAV audio)</term>
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<para>The Voice output profile produces low-quality mono audio
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files. You may wish to select this for lectures, books on tape,
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and other spoken word CDs, where the loss in audio quality is
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less important.</para>
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<para>You can click the <guibutton>Edit Profiles</guibutton> button to
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edit the available audio formats. The profile editor dialog provides
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direct access to the audio conversion. Profiles are defined with
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<application>GStreamer</application> pipelines.
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<application>GStreamer</application> is the underlying multimedia
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library used by <application>Sound Juicer</application> and other multimedia applications.
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A full explanation of audio profiles is outside the scope of this
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<para>If you need to store tracks in the MP3 format (for example,
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if your portable music player only supports MP3 and not Ogg Vorbis),
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you will need to create a new profile. To do this, click on
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<guibutton>Edit Profiles</guibutton>, click <guibutton>New</guibutton>,
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and name the profile <userinput>MP3</userinput>.</para>
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<para>Select the MP3 profile and click the <guibutton>Edit</guibutton>
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button. Set <guilabel>GStreamer Pipeline</guilabel> to
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<literallayout><userinput>audio/x-raw-int,rate=44100,channels=2 ! lame name=enc vbr=0 bitrate=192 ! id3v2mux</userinput></literallayout></para>
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<para>Set the <guilabel>File Extension</guilabel> to
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<userinput>mp3</userinput>, and select the <guibutton>Active</guibutton>
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check box. You will have to restart <application>Sound Juicer</application> to see the new
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audio profile.</para>
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<para>This profile uses the <application>LAME</application> MP3 encoder,
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so you will need to have the GStreamer LAME plugin installed.</para>
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