On Sunday 09 December 2001 09:11 am, Mark Weaver wrote: > Tom Brinkman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > It's been a long time since I used ripperX, as I've settled on > > Grip as a better front end. Both are just FE's for cdparanoia and > > the mp3 encoder of your choice (ought'a be, > > notlame-3.90-0.20011127.1mdk , > > http://lis.snv.jussieu.fr/~rousse/linux/plf/ , IMO ) > > > > Then I believe it's better to rip to wav's (I use xmms' diskwriter > > plugin) and use this utility, normalize-0.6.1-1mdk, to equalize the > > volumes of many wav's's and also fix 'bad pages' many contain. Then > > encode to mp3's. Best chance of ending up with 'CD quality' mp3's. > > Ok...I'll bite. Why is notlame better then bladeenc for making .mp3 > files? As I said, 'In My Opinion'. Either is fine, I believe more people prefer lame to bladeenc tho. I do. The notlame rpm I pointed to installs 'lame', is made by one of the Mandrake developers, and is the latest version (LAME version 3.90 MMX). > > as for ripping I've been using a little PERL file called RIP that works > real nice. It contacts the CDDB and renames all the files for me. I made a confusing mistake in what I wrote. I use the Xmms diskwriter plugin to convert mp3's to wav's. I use Grip to convert audio CD's to wav's, or directly to mp3's. Grip also does CDDB lookups and adds the names. Xmms has a normalize plugin, but I prefer to 'normalize -m *.wav' from the command line, doin many all at once to average the sound volume over lot'sa files. Either way I think 'normalize' is a neccessary step to produce best quality mp3's, or wav's to burn to a CD as .cda's. Specially if you d/l mp3's from various sources, or rip from multiple CD's. AFAIK, there aren't any apps that can normalize mp3's directly. -- ____Tom Brinkman _________________ South Texas, USA_____ Drew's Law of Highway Biology: The first bug to hit a clean windshield lands directly in front of your eyes.
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