{"id":666,"date":"2010-05-14T10:21:11","date_gmt":"2010-05-14T14:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/?p=666"},"modified":"2018-10-22T12:30:44","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T16:30:44","slug":"using-a-higher-bitrate-when-rhythmbox-creates-mp3-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/14\/using-a-higher-bitrate-when-rhythmbox-creates-mp3-files\/","title":{"rendered":"Setting the bitrate when Rhythmbox creates MP3 files"},"content":{"rendered":"<abbr class=\"unapi-id\" title=\"\"><!-- &nbsp; --><\/abbr>\n<p>To change the bitrate for Rhythmbox MP3 rips of CDs, I followed the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.code-zen.net\/2008\/rhythmbox-music-player-tip\/\">suggestions offered by Peter Anselmo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Open \u201cPreferences\u201d from the \u201cEdit\u201d menu<br \/>\nSelect the \u201cEdit\u201d button to the right of \u201cPreferred Format\u201d<br \/>\nSelect \u201cCD Quality, MP3\u2033 from the menu and hit \u201cEdit\u201d<br \/>\nUnder the \u201cGstreamer pipeline\u201d field you will find the following:<\/p>\n<p>audio\/x-raw-int,rate=44100,channels=2 ! lame name=enc mode=0 vbr-quality=6 ! id3v2mux<\/p>\n<p>To remove the default, remove the vbr-quality=6 statement, and replace it with vbr=0 bitrate=256. This will change it from variable to constant bit rate, and set it to 256 kb\/s. You can set it to whatever bit rate you prefer, I like 256. You line should now look like the following:<\/p>\n<p>audio\/x-raw-int,rate=44100,channels=2 ! lame name=enc mode=0 vbr=0 bitrate=256 ! id3v2mux<\/p>\n<p>Close the window, and Viola! You\u2019ll now rip CDs at a higher quality<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To change the bitrate for Rhythmbox MP3 rips of CDs, I followed the suggestions offered by Peter Anselmo. Open \u201cPreferences\u201d from the \u201cEdit\u201d menu Select the \u201cEdit\u201d button to the right of \u201cPreferred Format\u201d Select \u201cCD Quality, MP3\u2033 from the menu and hit \u201cEdit\u201d Under the \u201cGstreamer pipeline\u201d field you will find the following: audio\/x-raw-int,rate=44100,channels=2 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":669,"href":"http:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions\/669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}