Bug 141965

Summary:	Unable to rip audio cdroms to put on ipod 30GB
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Art Fore <art.fore>
Component:	Usability	Assignee:	Siegfried Olschner <siegfried.olschner>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:	Siegfried Olschner <siegfried.olschner>
Severity:	Major
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i686
OS:	SuSE Linux 10.0
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Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
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Description Art Fore 2006-01-08 04:15:41 UTC

Suse linux is most unfriendly when it comes to audio. With Windows, I can install itunes and rip a cdrom to an ipod which takes about 3 minutes per cdrom. I have been trying for 3 weeks to be able to do this in Suse Linux. After doing a fresh install, installing lame, I can only rip a cdrom to mp3 with grip which takes over 30 minutes per cdrom. Sound-juicer installed from suse dvd requires gstreamer-lame which I have been unable to find the source for or rpm for for the suse gstreamer 0.8.11. KaudioCreator is even slower the grip, and amarok does not work at all. Also KaudioCreator and amarok are far too complex to use for my wife to use. She finds itunes no problem.

gtkpod works fine for syncronizing, but will not rip the cdroms. Why does suse include it then not even support it to work as it should?

I have been using suse linux since 7.3, always buying suse linux pro every new version. Have been very happy with it until now. I can see no reason why suse linux cannot be just as good as windows. At home, the only thing we use windows for is itunes to rip cdrom, don't even buy from the apple store. My wife as several hundered cdrom and wants to put them on her ipod I gave her from Christmas.

Please make suse linux better by supporting such items as Ipod. I can understand the problem with dvd movies from a legal aspect, but just have to install some other rpms and update kaffiene which works great for that. (May not be legal, but I don't rip them or share them anyhow.) Even if Suse offered a proprietary dvd player a a nominal fee, it would be better than the present situation.

Art

Comment 1 Siegfried Olschner 2006-02-02 11:18:24 UTC

Cleaning up my bugs.
Thank you for your comment - the problem is well known and still alive in 10.1. Product manager knows.
Close bug.