At 08:14 PM 4/26/00 -0400, you wrote:
>The digest had the following:
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>From: Yoink! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: MP3, Sound Cards and Linux?
>
>On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, Martin R. Gonzalez wrote:
>> I am planning to transform many of my cds to mp3 so I can listen to
them
>> from the computer.
>> Therefore I would like to know which sound card I should get in order
>> not to lose any sound quality. Besides that, I am planning to do the job
>> using linux and hence I need to know which card is thes best for the task
>> and if it is supported under linux.
>
>It's not the sound card that matters at all, it is your cd-rom. The cd-rom
>never converts the cd-audio to analog, so the sound card is not involved.
>
>Buy a plextor or yamaha cd-rom for the highest quality, but what ever you
have
>may already support digital audio extraction. Check out cdparanoia to rip
>cd-audio. Check out www.freshmeat.net to find a good mp3 converter.
>
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>
>Maybe I'm all wet, but it seems to me that the CD device produces _both_
>analog
>(that is, audio) _and_ digital outputs. If you have the right software, you
>can use the digital output of an audio disk; if not, you have only the analog
>--which goes thru the sound-card--to work with. You need the right software
>to read the audio fs and decode it. I'm afraid I don't know what that is,
>but that's the story. Somone here will tell you, I'm sure.
>
>BOL --doug
>
For the process of converting CD sound tracks to MP3, the sound card doesn't
normally get involved. Unless your CD ROM drive doesn't support it, you use
cdparanoia to read the music CD as digital data, and save it as a wave file.
You then use a program like notlame to convert the wave file to a MP3 file.
If your system is fast enough, you can also feed the data from cdparanoia
directly to notlame and skip the wave file.
The sound card is important for MP3 playback. But the speaker system will
make more difference then the sound card. Just like with a home audio system,
the speakers make the most difference...
Mikkel
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