Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror and mp3
Am Sonntag 09 August 2009 21:23:27 schrieb Mick: I am looking at saving the mp3 files presented in Konqueror when looking at the contents of an audio CD. Although I can play/copy .wav files fine, I cannot play .mp3 files shown in Konqueror. All I get is a hiss no matter which player I use. What konqueror presents is just a virtual view. You cannot play anything else than the .wav's from a CD, because they're the only ones representing the real data. If you have the correct encoders installed, copying the other files to some other place will encode the selected audio track(s) and store the result in the destination directory. What do I need to do to be able to copy mp3s out of a CD? The correct encoders. See the audio cd section in KDE's system settings. HTH... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror and mp3
On Sunday 09 August 2009, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Sonntag 09 August 2009 21:23:27 schrieb Mick: I am looking at saving the mp3 files presented in Konqueror when looking at the contents of an audio CD. Although I can play/copy .wav files fine, I cannot play .mp3 files shown in Konqueror. All I get is a hiss no matter which player I use. What konqueror presents is just a virtual view. You cannot play anything else than the .wav's from a CD, because they're the only ones representing the real data. Oh, I see. When I copy an mp3 file I get a file which is 4.5MB large, so I thought that it has real music in it. If you have the correct encoders installed, copying the other files to some other place will encode the selected audio track(s) and store the result in the destination directory. What do I need to do to be able to copy mp3s out of a CD? The correct encoders. See the audio cd section in KDE's system settings. This is what I can see under kcontrol/audiocd: http://gentoo.michaelkintzios.fastmail.fm/audioCD.png I guess these settings are not enough on their own. What else should I add? How do I specify the necessary encoders? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror and mp3
On Sonntag 09 August 2009, Mick wrote: On Sunday 09 August 2009, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Sonntag 09 August 2009 21:23:27 schrieb Mick: I am looking at saving the mp3 files presented in Konqueror when looking at the contents of an audio CD. Although I can play/copy .wav files fine, I cannot play .mp3 files shown in Konqueror. All I get is a hiss no matter which player I use. What konqueror presents is just a virtual view. You cannot play anything else than the .wav's from a CD, because they're the only ones representing the real data. Oh, I see. When I copy an mp3 file I get a file which is 4.5MB large, so I thought that it has real music in it. If you have the correct encoders installed, copying the other files to some other place will encode the selected audio track(s) and store the result in the destination directory. What do I need to do to be able to copy mp3s out of a CD? The correct encoders. See the audio cd section in KDE's system settings. This is what I can see under kcontrol/audiocd: http://gentoo.michaelkintzios.fastmail.fm/audioCD.png I guess these settings are not enough on their own. What else should I add? How do I specify the necessary encoders? use constant bitrate, not vbr, just copy the mp3 somewhere and you will be fine.
Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror and mp3
On 9 Aug 2009, at 21:00, Mick wrote: On Sunday 09 August 2009, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Sonntag 09 August 2009 21:23:27 schrieb Mick: I am looking at saving the mp3 files presented in Konqueror when looking at the contents of an audio CD. Although I can play/copy .wav files fine, I cannot play .mp3 files shown in Konqueror. All I get is a hiss no matter which player I use. What konqueror presents is just a virtual view. You cannot play anything else than the .wav's from a CD, because they're the only ones representing the real data. Oh, I see. When I copy an mp3 file I get a file which is 4.5MB large, so I thought that it has real music in it. I believe that once you've dragged dropped one of these somewhere - resulting in a .mp3 file of about that size - they should indeed be playable. It sounds like something's broken. Are you using KDE 3.5.10? I think your problem may be described in this article: http://pclosmag.com/html/Issues/200907/page04.html But, if you want to rip MP3 files, you will have some extra work to do to get them to come out right. Due to a bug that crept into KDE 3.5.10, MP3s do not encode properly. Without the fix, all your MP3s will be nothing more than static-filled white noise. I no longer consider MP3 as a particularly good format for compressed audio. You might want to consider the Ogg Vorbis option, although on other platforms you may need to install software to play this format. Stroller.
Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror and mp3
On Sunday 09 August 2009, Stroller wrote: On 9 Aug 2009, at 21:00, Mick wrote: On Sunday 09 August 2009, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Sonntag 09 August 2009 21:23:27 schrieb Mick: I am looking at saving the mp3 files presented in Konqueror when looking at the contents of an audio CD. Although I can play/copy .wav files fine, I cannot play .mp3 files shown in Konqueror. All I get is a hiss no matter which player I use. What konqueror presents is just a virtual view. You cannot play anything else than the .wav's from a CD, because they're the only ones representing the real data. Oh, I see. When I copy an mp3 file I get a file which is 4.5MB large, so I thought that it has real music in it. I believe that once you've dragged dropped one of these somewhere - resulting in a .mp3 file of about that size - they should indeed be playable. It sounds like something's broken. Are you using KDE 3.5.10? I think your problem may be described in this article: http://pclosmag.com/html/Issues/200907/page04.html But, if you want to rip MP3 files, you will have some extra work to do to get them to come out right. Due to a bug that crept into KDE 3.5.10, MP3s do not encode properly. Without the fix, all your MP3s will be nothing more than static-filled white noise. I no longer consider MP3 as a particularly good format for compressed audio. You might want to consider the Ogg Vorbis option, although on other platforms you may need to install software to play this format. Thank you both. It seems that this is indeed a bug for KDE-3.5.10. :-( I tried both solutions and neither works. The former creates a 4.5MB mp3 file which is full of white noise, the latter described in the article creates an empty file 0MB. Is there another solution to this? I need mp3 because the file will be ultimately played on a vanilla WinXP PC. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror and mp3
On Sonntag 09 August 2009, Mick wrote: On Sunday 09 August 2009, Stroller wrote: On 9 Aug 2009, at 21:00, Mick wrote: On Sunday 09 August 2009, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Sonntag 09 August 2009 21:23:27 schrieb Mick: I am looking at saving the mp3 files presented in Konqueror when looking at the contents of an audio CD. Although I can play/copy .wav files fine, I cannot play .mp3 files shown in Konqueror. All I get is a hiss no matter which player I use. What konqueror presents is just a virtual view. You cannot play anything else than the .wav's from a CD, because they're the only ones representing the real data. Oh, I see. When I copy an mp3 file I get a file which is 4.5MB large, so I thought that it has real music in it. I believe that once you've dragged dropped one of these somewhere - resulting in a .mp3 file of about that size - they should indeed be playable. It sounds like something's broken. Are you using KDE 3.5.10? I think your problem may be described in this article: http://pclosmag.com/html/Issues/200907/page04.html But, if you want to rip MP3 files, you will have some extra work to do to get them to come out right. Due to a bug that crept into KDE 3.5.10, MP3s do not encode properly. Without the fix, all your MP3s will be nothing more than static-filled white noise. I no longer consider MP3 as a particularly good format for compressed audio. You might want to consider the Ogg Vorbis option, although on other platforms you may need to install software to play this format. Thank you both. It seems that this is indeed a bug for KDE-3.5.10. :-( I tried both solutions and neither works. The former creates a 4.5MB mp3 file which is full of white noise, the latter described in the article creates an empty file 0MB. Is there another solution to this? I need mp3 because the file will be ultimately played on a vanilla WinXP PC. I have started using flacs - because they can easily be trancoded into mp3 or ogg. flacs are lossless so they are good intermediate format. Rip to flac, store cd away and encode to whatever you want/need whenever you want/need to.
Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror and mp3
On Sunday 09 August 2009, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
On Sonntag 09 August 2009, Mick wrote:
Is there another solution to this? I need mp3 because the file will be
ultimately played on a vanilla WinXP PC.
I have started using flacs - because they can easily be trancoded into mp3
or ogg. flacs are lossless so they are good intermediate format. Rip to
flac, store cd away and encode to whatever you want/need whenever you
want/need to.
Thanks for this. I ended up copying over to my drive the flac file and then
running:
for file in *.flac; do $(flac -cd $file | lame -h - ${file%.flac}.mp3);
done
Not sure if the bitrate is appropriate. As is it was converted to a 48KB mp3
file at a bitrate of 128kbps.
--
Regards,
Mick
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