Lan Barnes wrote: > I would like to buy some songs (60s through 80s) individually without > looking for the albums in used CD stores. I want to do it legally.
Legally, huh? That makes things a bit tougher. > Two questions: > > 1. My CD SW rips to .wav's. Can I buy songs in a format (MP3?) that can > be burned to a CD and does it have to be a .wav? Yes. There is a program that does this very easily: mp3burn http://mp3burn.sourceforge.net/ mp3burn is a simple command line tool for making audio CDs from mp3s, oggs or FLACs without filling up your disk with .wav files. It requires perl, mpg123, oggenc, flac and cdrecord. Since it uses cdrecord in Track At Once mode, there is a two second silence between each audio track. If that is acceptable to you, you are done. If that is not acceptable, then you are more or less stuck converting the mp3's to wav's (via lame in decode mode, or mpg123 or xmms in disk write mode. I would recommend lame.) % lame --decode file.mp3 file.wav Then make a TOC and use cdrdao to burn the audio disks. This gives you *complete* control over the gaps between songs. For sheer ease of use, I would recommend sticking with mp3burn. > 2. Where do you guys/gals go on line to buy music? I have used allofmp3 before. I did that to find some particular audio tracks that are considered rare. I am still looking for the cd itself. Otherwise, I get my mp3's and ogg's from cd's that I own and have ripped myself. I don't trust anybody else to do adequate rips. I have gotten some really bad music from gnutella and the like. Another thing to note about allofmp3.com, some of their tracks are available in a non-lossy format. This means that you can take it and have full CD digital audio quality. No compression artifacts. allofmp3 also sells oggs, which byte-for-byte, are of better quality than mp3's. mp3burn can deal with ogg's just fine. My biggest problem with using allofmp3.com is that, yes, you do get a legal license to the music. However, it is hard to prove that you have that legal license. You have no receipt of any individual songs, and you do not have hte physical media for the songs, either. How do you prove that your copy is legal? I have no experience with iTunes or Rhapsody or any other online music service. I do not know how iTunes et al deal with that ability to prove that you have that license. What about if you give someone else a copy of that music? If you buy a book, and you do not like it, you can give it to someone else. If you have a CD you do not like, again, give it away. Posession of the physical medium is sufficient to prove that you have a license. What about the digital copy that you have a valid license for? If you don't like the song, and you give it to someone else, how does that license transfer? Maybe I am just overthinking this. I don't know. In summary: mp3burn http://mp3burn.sourceforge.net/ -john -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
