Comment 41 for bug 195483

It's nice to be able to offer a solution for a change.
The fault lies not with GStreamer, but with a failure to provide the wrong command string or 'profile' for LAME to execute.
For the CD Quality MP3 Profile, Edit it to read as follows :
audio/x-raw-int,rate=44100,channels=2 ! lame name=enc mode=1 vbr=4 vbr-min-bitrate=32 vbr-max-bitrate=320 vbr-quality=3 ! id3v2mux
This will result in what I call 'Super MP3' quality, average 171Kbps, ranging from 32-320Kbps, in accordance with another forum audio expert's recommendations, back when I researched sound-juicer as a suitable Linux ripping tool, which was around the time of Ubuntu 7.10 and LinuxMint-4.
As I recall, the mode=1 entry ensures stereo channel separation, the vbr=4 entry ensures correct operation with the old version of LAME then being used, the critical vbr-min and vbr-max commands set the range of compression desired and the quality command merely adds a subtle enhancement,
Note that this also works with other distros, especially PCLinuxOS.
Regarding Scott Bronson's comment, by also setting Preferences to Eject after extracting and Open music folder and running it while using a fast Internet connection for automatic tracks data download, it can be a quite fast process of just putting a CD into the preferences optical drive, clicking on Extract and waiting for the disc to be ejected.