Hi Friends,
I just discovered how to make mp3 from an Audio CD or a wav file in Linux
(RH 6.2), I would certainly like to share it with you; I am briefly (kaam
chalaao) describing the usage, well I believe in ease of use. So, let's
begin:
REQUIREMENTS:
a) Hardware and OS:
1. PC with a working Sound Card and
2. Linux 2.2 or greater (hopefully)
b) Software required:
1. Lame ( http://www.sulaco.org/mp3/ )
(visit http://rpmfind.net/ and search for 'lame')
download lame-3.22b-1.i386.rpm ( size = 140.70 kb)
or see the attachment of this mail. or get an rpm of your distribution
2. Cdparanoia (available in your Distribution CD)
INSTALLATION:
i) CDPARANOIA installation:
for Red Hat 6.2 users, install cdparanoia by inserting the cdrom
and by running the following commands:
1. mount /mnt/cdrom
2. rpm -Uvh /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/cdparanoia*.rpm
for SuSe 6.3+ users,
1. mount /cdrom
2. rpm -Uvh /mnt/cdrom/full-names/i386/cdparano*.rpm
ii) LAME installation:
I attached rpm for Red Hat 6.x, (see attachment) or you can download it
from http://rpmfind.net, if you use SuSe then see the
Vendor/Packager/Distribution and select the appropriate i386 rpm not
src.i386.rpm.
One command to install/upgrate Lame:
$ rpm -Uvh lame*.rpm
if the above procedure went smoothly, then you can now start ripping
Audio CDs and Convert WAV to MP3. Here is how to do that:
USAGE: Use inside Konsole or a terminal
1) WAV to MP3: it is very very easy, run the following command:
$ lame <sourceFile.wav> <targetFile.mp3>
sourceFile should be a wave file and targetFile will be the output name,
so naturally it should be an mp3.
example:
$ lame /usr/share/sounds/KDE_Startup.wav ./KDE_Startup.mp3
to Test:
$ mpg123 KDE_Startup.mp3 (or) xmms KDE_Startup.mp3
2) Audio CD to WAV then to MP3 (no direct procedure ;)
to copy track 3 from Audio CD run the following commands in a line:
$ cdparanoia 3 song3.wav && lame song3.wav song3.mp3
Bugs/Hints:
Somtimes it (lame) gets hung during cd ripping, press CTRL+C to stop the
operation.
read man pages of 'lame' by running 'man lame'
delete the WAV file as soon as you have finished with the mp3 encoding,
since its large file-size reduces performace of OS.
Request:
Please help ourselves and Linux Community in Learning Linux and its many
powerful utilities by contributing to Linux-Documentation-Project. Please
visit http://www.linuxdoc.org/, to learn about how to contribute to HOWTOS
and Documentation work. If you know more about cdda2wav and cdparanoia
front-ends like Ksoundrecord or such utilities, don't keep it to yourself,
share with others, knowledge grows by distributing :^) Hope you find this
mail useful...
Yours Friendly,
Rizwaan.
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