While I haven't used it recently, in the past I used lame extensively to convert to mp3 files. I had dozens of cron jobs running, converting many hours of wav recordings to mp3 and posting them on web pages on a daily basis.
Michael On Sat, Dec 2, 2017 at 4:34 PM, Tomas Kuchta <[email protected]> wrote: > I wanted to post separately on your continued external disk troubles. > > Unless you leave external USB resource management to standard hotplug you > will continue to have these kind of issues and conflicts. > > The only way to workaround with your fstab way would be to do all below: > a) mount your USB disk to other place than media, so it is not of the way > for normal hotplug schemes > b) use uuid instead of /dev/... in fstab. That way it is guaranteed to > mount only the right disk/partition to the mount dir from a) > > Good luck, > Tomas > > On Dec 2, 2017 3:11 PM, "Rich Shepard" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I bought a small digital voice recorder which saves files in .wav > format. > > I found a script to convert from .wav to .mp3, but this device apparently > > has a non-standard format (0x0011). > > > > Another web search found Sound eXchanger (SoX) which will not only > change > > wav formats but convert among many different types. Unfortunately, the > > build > > script available at SlackBuilds.org does not compile with mp2 and mp3 > > support (I've written the maintainer about this). But, ... > > > > Until I get sox working to convert from .wav to .mp3 another search > > taught > > me that the 'play' capability within sox produces sounds from .wav files > on > > linux. This is an interim solution. Are there other audio format > converters > > that I might try on these files? > > > > On a related issue, /var/log/messages shows that the recorder is seen > as > > the SCSI disk /dev/sdb. I have an entry in /etc/fstab for my 3T external > > hard drive (ext3 file system) which the kernel sees as /dev/sdb assigned > to > > /mnt/hd/. Root can mount the vfat file system recorder on /mnt/hd/; can > two > > devices (with different file systems) be listed in /etc/fstab to be > mounted > > on the same mount point? > > > > Rich > > _______________________________________________ > > PLUG mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
