Talk:Goobox

In regards to the notability of Goobox, it is an interesting program because it has a very simplified Gnome2 interface, like the other popular Gnome CD ripper Sound Juicer. However Goobox has a much more friendly interface for music extraction, as it presents quality settings on slider bars which easily allow the user to choose between sound quality and file size. (see screenshot 1) Sound Juicer requires editing Gstreamer profiles directly, which are non-obvious strings like audio/x-raw-int,rate=44100,channels=2!lame name=enc bitrate=128

Also, Goobox has the ability to automatically download CD cover art from the internet, while Sound Juicer does not yet support cover art.

Finally, on Ubuntu Linux (perhaps the most popular desktop linux distribution), Goobox supports the MP3 format by default (assuming the appropriate MP3 libraries are installed on the system), while Sound Juicer has no obvious way of enabling MP3 extraction. Enabling MP3 support in Sound Juicer requires the user to search the web to find the above non-obvious Gstreamer profile, and manually type this string into its preferences. (which, in its defense, also enables MP3 support for any such Gstreamer app.)

That said, I can't tell how actively Goobox is developed or promoted. From this user's standpoint, however, it is a worthwhile little program, and if Sound Juicer gets a wikipedia entry then Goobox probably should too.

Also, it does have a small little homepage: http://www.gnome.org/~paobac/goobox/

--Atonaldenim 01:25, 4 January 2007 (UTC)