a better lame setting is this: lame --preset standard temp.wav temp.mp3
--preset standard is the same as r3mix, but 128 min... On Wednesday 16 March 2005 15:15, Hans Fugal wrote: > On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 at 15:08 -0700, Lars Rasmussen wrote: > > I have several files I need to convert from ulaw to VBR mp3. > > > > lame was unable to deal with these ulaw files directly, so I'm making > > an intermediary file. > > > > These two commands seem to do what I want, starting with ulaw file > > 15146282.wav: > > > > mplayer -V 15146282.wav -vo null -vc dummy -ao pcm -aofile temp.wav > > lame --r3mix temp.wav 15146282.mp3 > > You are of course welcome to use mplayer if you like, but I'd do this > with sox. > > sox foo.wav <options to get it into the format lame wants> temp.wav > lame --r3mix temp.wav foo.mp3 > > Lame may even take a wave on stdin and sox could output to stdout, so > you could pipe them together without the temporary file. That's not > going to make as much difference as using sox instead of mplayer, I'm > guessing. > > Insert obligatory plug for ogg instead of mp3 here. I'm assuming you > really do want mp3 for some real, if unfathomable, reason. .===================================. | This has been a P.L.U.G. mailing. | | Don't Fear the Penguin. | | IRC: #utah at irc.freenode.net | `==================================='
