On Sonntag 09 August 2009, Mick wrote: > On Sunday 09 August 2009, Stroller wrote: > > On 9 Aug 2009, at 21:00, Mick wrote: > > > On Sunday 09 August 2009, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > >> Am Sonntag 09 August 2009 21:23:27 schrieb Mick: > > >>> I am looking at saving the mp3 files presented in Konqueror when > > >>> looking > > >>> at the contents of an audio CD. Although I can play/copy .wav files > > >>> fine, I cannot play .mp3 files shown in Konqueror. All I get is a > > >>> hiss > > >>> no matter which player I use. > > >> > > >> What konqueror presents is just a virtual view. You cannot play > > >> anything > > >> else than the .wav's from a CD, because they're the only ones > > >> representing > > >> the real data. > > > > > > Oh, I see. When I copy an mp3 file I get a file which is 4.5MB > > > large, so I > > > thought that it has real music in it. > > > > I believe that once you've dragged & dropped one of these somewhere - > > resulting in a .mp3 file of about that size - they should indeed be > > playable. It sounds like something's broken. > > > > Are you using KDE 3.5.10? > > > > I think your problem may be described in this article: > > http://pclosmag.com/html/Issues/200907/page04.html > > > > But, if you want to rip MP3 files, you will have some extra work > > to do > > to get them to come out right. Due to a "bug" that crept into KDE > > 3.5.10, MP3s do not encode properly. Without the "fix," all your > > MP3s > > will be nothing more than static-filled white noise. > > > > I no longer consider MP3 as a particularly good format for compressed > > audio. You might want to consider the Ogg Vorbis option, although on > > other platforms you may need to install software to play this format. > > Thank you both. It seems that this is indeed a bug for KDE-3.5.10. :-( > > I tried both solutions and neither works. The former creates a 4.5MB mp3 > file which is full of white noise, the latter described in the article > creates an empty file 0MB. > > Is there another solution to this? I need mp3 because the file will be > ultimately played on a vanilla WinXP PC.
I have started using flacs - because they can easily be trancoded into mp3 or ogg. flacs are lossless so they are good intermediate format. Rip to flac, store cd away and encode to whatever you want/need whenever you want/need to.
