MP3 Rips With Sound-Juicer

Well, things work well when you get help:

A bit ago, I said that it seemed hard to get sound-juicer to rip CDs to MP3 format. But then, I got feedback from Ross Burton, the developer of sound-juicer, who told me to look for the gstreamer-lame plugin to handle MP3 files.

This took a bit of detective work: Mandrake has the plugin under that name in the Penguin Liberation Front archives, but the dependencies to install it weren't compatible with Fedora's shipped version of gstreamer. Eventually, I thought to look in the the list of available RPMs for Fedora Core 4. Doing
$ yum list > yum_files
and then looking at the output, I found the line:
gstreamer-plugins-mp3.i386  0.8.8-0.lvn.1.4  livna
which looked promising. (The program is in the Livna repository, which is I installed with help from Fedora Core Tips & Tricks.) So install the package via:
$ sudo yum install gstreamer-plugins-mp3
and off to the sound-juicer manual to learn how to add MP3 ripping capabilities:

1. Run the program gnome-audio-profiles-properties
   1. Press "New" to get a create a new profile, then "Edit"
   2. Name it MP3
   3. In the box labeled "GStreamer Pipeline" enter:
      audio/x-raw-int,rate=44100,channels=2 ! lame name=enc
   4. Fill in the "File Extension" box with "mp3"
   5. Click the "active" check box
   6. Exit
2. Start up sound-juicer
3. Under "Edit=>Preferences" go to Output: and select "MP3"
4. Rip normally

And this works: except that I get error messages of the type
Couldn't find matching gstreamer tag for track-count
Couldn't find matching gstreamer tag for encoder
Couldn't find matching gstreamer tag for encoder-version
for every track, and at the end sound-juicer hung up and I had to kill it manually. We'll see if this problem persists.

Anyway, thanks again to Ross Burton for helping out.