High-quality MP3 ripping in Rhythmbox

by guopai

To get high quality VBR (200-240 kbps) ripping in Rhythbox, use this pipeline:

audio/x-raw-int,rate=44100,channels=2 ! lame preset=insane ! xingmux ! id3v2mux

You can’t alter bit-rate using ‘vbr-quality’. This is a bug.

Additionally, xingmux option prevents an audio programme from reporting wrong track time as reported here.

If you happen to have vbr mp3 files that display wrong track time, use ‘vbrfix’ which is available in Synaptics. It will fix the wrong mp3 header. To use simply ‘vbrfix input.mp3 output.mp3′.