I'm using VLC on Linux - though, for the record, I have tried the same thing on my windows set up with similar results.
I feel retarded. I just want to do a simple thing that I am having a lot of trouble with, and google searches aren't giving me answers (maybe because it's too stupidly simple.)
I first wanted to rip an audio CD in VLC but I could not get this to work (2 secs, I'll come back to why)
So I wound up getting a stand-alone audio ripped - SoundJuicer - and ripped the CD.....turns out it ripped in Ogg Vorbis because...I don't have MP3 support? Which is weird, because VLC can play all of my MP3's just fine (side note: gmusicbrowser tells me I don't have the mp3 plugin package either)
So, I figured I could just take the ogg files and convert them in VLC, I know how to do that!
Well, i ran into the EXACT same problem I had with ripping the CD: first, it always wants to output the files with the same name. so...say, I tell it to save the files to a folder as "track_1.mp3" - instead of it going, "track_2.mp3" or, god forbid, "track_1(1).mp3", it keeps trying to write each file as "track_1.mp3", meaning I have the option to skip the track or overwrite it. That is pretty annoying in it of itself, however, it seems to get stuck in an infinite loop.
"overwrite track?" -> no -> "okay, overwrite track?" -> no. en infinitum.
So it's not like I can even convert the files or rip the files 1 at a time, because if I force close the box, it assumes "yes, overwrite" which then eliminates the file's data, then VLC closes, and now I am left with a file with no data.
A quick answer would be appreciated (though I'm not hopeful) - I bought a couple CDs today that I would like to be able to listen to on the plane ride tomorrow.
EDIT:
unrelated note: I fixed the music gstreamer plugin problem I was having with gmusicplayer and SoundJuicer. Apparently downloading the packages directly wasn't good enough for the softwares...instead, downloading Rhythmbox and it's additional gstreamer plugins is what those softwares wanted.