What you want is a CD ripper. This will take CD tracks and turn them into
.wav files--which can then be converted to mp3s. A single CD track will
take about 10MB per minute of music.
Rippers are dependent on your CD-ROM--have a look at http://www.mp3.com
the standard mp3 encoder, l3enc, is NOT freeware however, you may be able
to find one that doesn't require the Fraunhofer IIS (l3enc) codecs. this
may not be strictly legal though as they have stopped some people from
distributing their own encoders.
Also, mp3 conversion requires a pretty heavy-duty machine. I've done
it--on my pII/266, 64 MB RAM, under NT (sorry... sound probs under Linux!)
a 4min pop song took 35mins to encode and rendered my PC dog-slow in the
process.
then again, making mp3s of copyrighted material, even for personal use, is
a grey area legally anyway... but, like making tapes for the car, as long
as you don't distribute them, you're probably not going to get in any
trouble.
Alexis
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-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Nugent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Linux Applications Email List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Friday, 28 August 1998 07:38
Subject: mp3 program
>Are there any cool mp3 programs for linux that will, for example, turn
the
>tracks on a (sound) CDROM into mp3 files?
>
>If one such beast is X-based, so much the better. If it's in rpm
format,
>that's good too :)
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Cheers
>Tony
>
