playing and ripping, ogg and mp3s?

[Tony]

On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 10:01:42 +1000, Jeff Waugh <jeff.waugh at canonical.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 19:47 -0400, Tony wrote:
> > I have tried playing my ogg files with XMMS on my ubuntu installation,
> > but it does not appear to work.  I have been able to install Real
> > Player and it works O.K. So I would assume my sound card is not the
> > issue.  Can someone clearify what software, above the basic ubuntu
> > installation, is necessary to play ogg and mp3 files?
> 
> Nothing extra required for OGG vorbis playing, perhaps you haven't
> configured XMMS to use the esound output plugin?

Symptom: When I try to select an ogg file with XMMS it will not show
up in the playlist editor.  I have checked the ouptup plugin and have
it selected for "eSound Output Plugin 1.2.10".  The configuration only
has:

Server > Hosts: Use remote host (unchecked)
Server > Hosts: Volume control OSS mixer (grayed out)

Buffering > Buffer size 3000ms
Buffering > Pre-buffer 25%

I don't see any other configurations for output?

> 
> > What about for ripping CD's to ogg using GRIP?
> 
> Don't use GRIP, use Sound Juicer (Applications > Multimedia > Sound
> Juicer CD Ripper). It's there by default on your desktop install. :-)
> You will be able to do OGG encoding immediately with it.

I'll give Juicer CD Ripper a try, once I can get my ogg files to play
:)  I have only used GRIP in the past.

Tony