[PLUG] iPod with Linux?

Jason R. Martin nsxfreddy at verizon.net
Sun Jul 3 01:26:24 UTC 2005


John Jordan wrote:
> But perhaps that is not correct. I put the Stravinksy CD back in the 
> drive and decided to re-rip it. This time I went into Config in grip and 
> found a number of options --
> 
> bladeenc
> lame
> l3enc
> xingmp3enc
> gogo
> oggenc
> flac
> other
> 
> It was set on oggenc, so I switched it to mp3encode. When I did 
> the "encode file extension" box changed from ogg to mp3. "Cool," I 
> thought, and proceeded to start the rip process. But when I tried to 
> start it I got an error message "invalid encoder executable, Check 
> your encoder config." Looking at the encoder config there are a 
> bazillion settings that can be changed. And I don't know what any 
> of them mean. :(
> 
> So for the moment I'm stymied. Wish grip had a help file to explain 
> the settings.

grip is just a front-end for command-line mp3 (ogg, etc) encoders.  The 
list you see is the various encoders it knows how to talk to, so you 
should pick one and then make sure it's installed.  Lame is pretty 
common I think.

Jason



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