Recently I built a dual core machine.  It rips mp3’s from cd’s like a hot knife through butter.  However when we copied and discovered the music in iTunes to sync over to our iPods (Wife has  a Mac) we found out that the id3 tags were broken.  What I found out tonight was that when you build the mp3 preference in Sound Juicer you have to add the following line.

audio/x-raw-int,rate=44100,channels=2 ! lame name=enc bitrate=160 ! id3v2mux

Set what you need set and you’re good to go.

For those who want to use Sound Juicer to rip mp3’s but do not know where to start Ubuntu Help comes in handy.  Incidentally that’s where I found the line above.  You can see the full tutorial here.

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I’ve found a good howto on getting MythTv running on Ubuntu Edgy.  It appears to be very complete with some good examples and links to many other resources for MythTv on Ubuntu.

For those who do not know what MythTv is.  MythTv is like Tivo for Linux.  With a pair of video recording cards you can do a lot with just one PC running MythTv.  In fact it’s more like Tivo and Slingbox rolled up into one.

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