[gentoo-user] Ripping a CD to mp3 formate (sound-juicer)

[Allan Gottlieb]

I have used gentoo for a while, but am new to audio.

Sound-juicer successfully rips CDs to .ogg files, which are successfully
played by totem.

I would like to produce .mp3 audio for some instead of .ogg.

SJ (sound-juicer) lists mp3 in its "edit profiles..." option but does
not include it in the "Output Format" drop down list.

The SJ ebuild says

  "If ${PN} does not rip to some music format, please check your"
  "USE flags on media-plugins/gst-plugins-meta"

I did check and the ones I don't have set seem unrelated to mp3.

  allan ~ # eix --nocolor gst-plugins-meta
  [I] media-plugins/gst-plugins-meta
       Available versions:  (0.10)  0.10 ~0.10-r1 0.10-r2
  	{X a52 alsa dvb dvd esd ffmpeg flac mad mpeg mythtv ogg oss theora vorbis xv}
       Installed versions:  0.10-r2(0.10)(12:26:39 11/17/08)(X alsa dvd esd ffmpeg mad mpeg ogg vorbis xv -a52 -dvb -flac -mythtv -oss -theora)
       Homepage:            http://www.gentoo.org
       Description:         Meta ebuild to pull in gst plugins for apps

Any help would be appreciated.

thanks,
allan