> Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2000 16:49:41 -0700
> From: "steve m." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Hi,
>
> Another potentially stupid question but just need some confirmation and
> possible suggestions. I have a lot of playstation CD's with music I
> would like to 'rip'. First question would be is it legal to extract the
> audio for domestic use? Second question would be that since the PSX .xa
> format is 38.125 kHz, most encoders die painfully because they can't
> understand the sampling rate. Would the --resample swith of LAME be able
> to work with this? I was given the impression by some other discussions
> that it only bumps the bitrate up or down between "supported" levels.
> Assuming it can however, would the quality on this be respectable? Also,
> are there any simple command-line utilities that can resample these .WAV
> files up to 44.1 kHz so that I can encode them normally? I am a Linux
> person but can use a windows or Solaris box for this if need be. Also,
> if anyone has any recommendations on programs to use that would make
> this extraction/conversion process easier it would be appreciated.
> Getting the .WAV files is easy. Encoding them has proven to be
> impossible for me thus far without using a program like SoundForge
> (which I do not own). Help appreciated. =)
>
lame should handle any input samplerate. Unless you specify otherwise,
I think it will automatically downsample to 32khz. But 38.125
has probably never been tested so you might find a few
glitches - they should be easy to fix.
sox (linux) will resample for you, but be sure to use the 'resample'
option, it is much higher quality.
Mark
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