Sound Juicer

Sound Juicer is an open source piece of software that provides users with a dedicated Audio-CD ripper, specifically designed to be deployed on the GNOME desktop environment.

Key features include a clean, straightforward and easy to use graphical user interface, Audio-CD playback, special character stripping, pre-defined folder hierarchy and file names, GNOME integration, support for a mainstream digital audio formats.

Lean, mean and clean interface

The graphical user interface is straightforward and can be used by anyone. It will automatically load an Audio-CD, if available on the CD/DVD-ROM device, allowing users to play it or rip it with a single click of a button.

From the Preferences dialog, users will be able to select the preferred CD/DVD drive, if multiple are available, choose to force the app to eject the medium after extracting the tracks, as well as to open the music folder when finished.

Additionally, users can choose the output folder where the tracks are ripped, select how the track name will be formatted, enable stripping of special characters, as well as to choose an output format (OGG Vorbis, MP3, FLAC, and AAC are supported at this time).

Under the hood and availability

The application depends on a few important open source libraries, such as the libao audio output library, libdiscid MusicBrainz DiscID creator library, and the libmusicbrainz5 MusicBrainz server access library.

In addition, it also depends on the Brasero CD/DVD burning software and the powerful GStreamer multimedia framework, which provides the built-in support for its digital audio formats.

It is available for download as a source archive, which can be configured, compiled and installed on any Linux distribution as long as all requirements are met. The program is usually distributed with the GNOME desktop environment, and can be installed from the default software channels of many Linux OSes.

Bottom line

Overall, Sound Juicer proves to be a very easy to use Audio-CD ripper, encoder and player application for the GNOME desktop environment. It is exactly what the doctor ordered, too bad that Audio-CDs are not so popular anymore.

What is new in this release:

• Translations:
• Hungarian (Balazs Ur)

What is new in version 3.22.1 / 3.24.0 Beta:

• Follow symbolic links when extracting tracks (Phillip Wood)
• Use dbus application launching (Phillip Wood)
• Change application id to org.gnome.SoundJuicer (Phillip Wood)
• Update Appdata file (Phillip Wood)
• Drop gnome-common dependency (Phillip Wood)
• Fix compiler warnings (Phillip Wood)
• Add --enable--appstream-util to DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS (Phillip Wood)
• Replace call to deprecated functions (Phillip Wood)
• Remove deprecated widgets (Phillip Wood)

What is new in version 3.22.1:

• Fix a memory leak (Phillip Wood)
• Translations:
• Catalan (Jordi Mas)

What is new in version 3.22.0:

• Use GtkScrolledWindow:propagate-natural-height/width (Phillip Wood).

What is new in version 3.20.0 / 3.22.0 Beta:

• Replace Intltool with GNU Gettext (Phillip Wood, Piotr Drag, Petr Kovar)
• Update multiple album dialog (Phillip Wood)
• Modernize preferences dialog slightly (Phillip Wood)
• Check MCN before querying detailed album metadata (Phillip Wood)
• Skip data tracks at the start of disc (Phillip Wood, Bastien Nocera)
• Rate limit musicbrainz queries (Phillip Wood)
• Retry query if MusicBrainz is busy (Phillip Wood)
• Add logging for metadata retrieval (Phillip Wood)
• Re-enable ‘re-read' after album has been selected (Phillip Wood)
• Add Language headers to po files (Piotr Drag)
• Ensure data/appdata exists under $(builddir) (Phillip Wood)
• Fix -Wformat-nonliteral warnings (Phillip Wood)
• Require libdiscid 0.4.0 or newer (Phillip Wood)
• Remove shadow variable from SjMetadataMusicBraninz (Phillip Wood)
• Translations:
• Lithuanian (Aurimas Cernius)
• Occitan (Cedric Valmary)
• Spanish (Daniel Mustieles)
• Updated Indonesian (Andika Triwidada)
• Vietnamese (Trần Ngọc Quan)
• zh_CN (Luo Lei)

What is new in version 3.18.1:

• Avoid NULL string dereference
• Translations:
• Czech
• Finnish
• German
• Greek
• Slovak

What is new in version 3.16.1 / 3.18 Beta 1:

• Improve eject logic (Phillip Wood)
• Make metadata retrieval cancellable (Phillip Wood)
• Improve wording of submit infobar label (Phillip Wood)
• Translations:
• Catalan (Jordi Mas)
• Hungarian (GAbor Kelemen)
• Slovenian (Matej UrbanAiA)
• Swedish (Anders Jonsson)
• Thai (Akom Chotiphantawanon)

What is new in version 3.16.1:

• Fix a crash in multiple_album_dialog() (Phillip Wood)

What is new in version 3.16.0:

• Translations:
• Chinese (Taiwan) (Cheng-Chia Tseng)
• Spanish (Daniel Mustieles)

What is new in version 3.14.0:

• Translations: Slovak

What is new in version 3.14 RC1:

• Internal cleanups
• Translations

What is new in version 3.14 Beta 2:

• Use g_file_make_directory_with_parents() (Christophe Fergeau)
• Use gtk_application_inhibit() (Phillip Wood)
• Translation updates:
• Czech (Marek AŒernockA½)
• French (Christophe Fergeau)
• Spanish (Daniel Mustieles)

What is new in version 3.14 Beta 1:

• Improve track editing (Phillip Wood)
• Support multiple composers and arrangers (Phillip Wood)
• Don't retrieve metadata twice at start up (Phillip Wood)
• Fix setting of Music folder in preferences dialog (Phillip Wood)
• Fix translatable string (Amulya Kumar Sahoo)
• Fix memory leaks (Christophe Fergeau & Phillip Wood)
• Move submit infobar to ui file (Phillip Wood)
• Translation updates:
• Greek
• Hungarian
• Polish

What is new in version 3.12.0:

• Fix empty fallback titles with some CDs (Bastien Nocera)
• Fix date tag setting (Christophe Fergeau)
• Add support for the "none" proxy mode (Bastien Nocera)
• Improve multiple album dialog (Phillip Wood)
• Fix the width of year and disc number entries (Phillip Wood)
• Add names to timeouts and idles (Bastien Nocera)
• Use the glib generic marshaller (Bastien Nocera)
• Store release date as GstDateTime (Christophe Fergeau)
• Build system improvement (Philip Withnall)
• Add MusicBrainz specific country codes (Phillip Wood)
• Update doap urls (Piotr DrA...g)
• Translation updates:
• Basque
• Brazilian Portuguese
• Czech
• German
• Hebrew
• Indonesian
• Lithuanian
• Polish
• Romanian
• Russian
• Spanish

What is new in version 3.12 Beta 1:

• Port to GtkApplication (Florian MA¼llner)
• Support composer tags (Phillip Wood, Christophe Fergeau)
• Use artist aliases from MusicBrainz (Phillip Wood)
• Ignore artist credits & track titles from recordings (Christophe Fergeau)
• Zero-pad track numbers (Christophe Fergeau)
• Improve multiple ablum dialog (Phillip Wood, Christophe Fergeau)
• Standardize App menu - Help/About/Quit (Michael Catanzaro)
• Add Select All/None button (Christophe Fergeau)
• Fix play seek (Phillip Wood)
• Fix MP3 encoding (Phillip Wood)
• Add opus encoding option (Phillip Wood)
• Use yelp-tools instead of gnome-doc-utils (Jeremy Bicha)
• Use GSettings instead of GConf (Christophe Fergeau, Gert Kulyk & Phillip Wood)
• Improve strings in the gschema file (Piotr DrA...g)
• Remove stock items (Phillip Wood)
• Save and restore window state (Phillip Wood)
• Update desktop file (Aleksander Morgado)
• Updated FSF's address (Daniel Mustieles)
• Use libdiscid read_sparse() (Johannes Dewender)
• Gstreamer 1.0 fixes (Bastien Nocera)
• Build system updates (Nuno Araujo, Christophe Fergeau)
• Various bug fixes (Christophe Fergeau, Phillip Wood)
• Translation updates

What is new in version 2.31.6:

• Many translations
• Add --with-gtk=2.0|3.0 configure flag, defaulting to 2.0 (Vincent Untz)

What is new in version 2.28.2:

• Many translations
• Fix crasher when MusicBrainz can't read a disc (Bastien Nocera)