sound juicer 2.10 and gstreamer-lame

[Julien Langer <jlanger zigweb de>]

Hi,

I have a little problem with sound juicer 2.10 and gstreamer-lame 0.8.8.
I tried the following pipeline to rip audio tracks as VBR mp3s:

audio/x-raw-int,rate=44100,channels=2 ! lame name=enc vbr=4 preset=1001

However the created mp3 files behave a bit weird:
-If I open them with beep-media-player or XMMS, the length of the tracks
displayed in the playlist always "jumps" (Totem also displays wrong
times for the tracks)
-If I try to view the properties of these mp3s, nautilus hangs
-beep-media-player/XMMS/Totem say, that these files are CBR mp3s with 32
kbps
-"file" says something like this:
01 - In The Meantime.mp3: MPEG ADTS, layer III, v1,  32 kBits, 44.1 kHz,
JntStereo

whereas proper VBR files (ripped with grip) look like this:
A Perfect Circle - Mer De Noms - 01 - The Hollow.mp3: MP3 file with ID3
version 2.3.0 tag


So is this a problem with the pipeline I used, or is it a bug with
sound-juicer or gstreamer?

Regards,
Julien Langer