Re: Creating MP3 for portable players

2004-06-24 Thread Nicolau Leal Werneck
I'm told that the information squeezed out by ogg is not audible to humans. And that the information squeezed out by mp3 compression is different, and not audible to humans. But when you ogg an mp3, you get both squeezed out, and the result *is* audible. But I haven't tried it out, and I'm

Creating MP3 for portable players

2004-06-21 Thread Keith O'Connell
Hi, I have be badgered by my wife and daughter to learn how to pull tracks off their CD's into a format to play on their MP3 players, so I have been teaching myself over the weekend. I can pull from CD to Ogg on my machine and I can put tracks onto CD-R all very happily. The problem I have

Re: Creating MP3 for portable players

2004-06-21 Thread John Smith
On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 15:09, Keith O'Connell wrote: Hi, I have be badgered by my wife and daughter to learn how to pull tracks off their CD's into a format to play on their MP3 players, so I have been teaching myself over the weekend. I can pull from CD to Ogg on my machine and I can

Re: Creating MP3 for portable players

2004-06-21 Thread David Fokkema
On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 02:09:09PM +0100, Keith O'Connell wrote: Hi, I have be badgered by my wife and daughter to learn how to pull tracks off their CD's into a format to play on their MP3 players, so I have been teaching myself over the weekend. I can pull from CD to Ogg on my machine

Re: Creating MP3 for portable players

2004-06-21 Thread Jacob S.
On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 15:28:34 +0200 David Fokkema [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 02:09:09PM +0100, Keith O'Connell wrote: Hi, I have be badgered by my wife and daughter to learn how to pull tracks off their CD's into a format to play on their MP3 players, so I have

Re: Creating MP3 for portable players

2004-06-21 Thread Jacques
Keith O'Connell wrote: Hi, I have be badgered by my wife and daughter to learn how to pull tracks off their CD's into a format to play on their MP3 players, so I have been teaching myself over the weekend. I can pull from CD to Ogg on my machine and I can put tracks onto CD-R all very happily.

Re: Creating MP3 for portable players

2004-06-21 Thread Robert Waldner
On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 15:28:40 +0200, Jacques writes: converting stuff to mp3 format http://www.ibiblio.org/tkan/xmcd/ pick up the software, and also the lame mp3 encoder. That's what I use to rip cds directly to mp3. Also supports flac and ogg. This software is a cd reader and ripper. Very

Re: Creating MP3 for portable players

2004-06-21 Thread David Fokkema
On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 08:40:21AM -0500, Jacob S. wrote: On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 15:28:34 +0200 David Fokkema [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 02:09:09PM +0100, Keith O'Connell wrote: Hi, I have be badgered by my wife and daughter to learn how to pull tracks off

Re: Creating MP3 for portable players

2004-06-21 Thread Jacob S.
On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 16:11:38 +0200 David Fokkema [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 08:40:21AM -0500, Jacob S. wrote: On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 15:28:34 +0200 David Fokkema [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, the url for Marillat's packages changed several months ago, as his

Re: Creating MP3 for portable players

2004-06-21 Thread Chris Metzler
On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 14:09:09 +0100 Keith O'Connell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been up and down the listings in Aptitude, and I cannot find out how to stay within Debian and (i) rip to mp3, or better still (ii) convert ogg to mp3 for the players Is this a licensing thing? Yes.

Re: Creating MP3 for portable players

2004-06-21 Thread David Fokkema
On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 09:28:44AM -0500, Jacob S. wrote: On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 16:11:38 +0200 David Fokkema [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 08:40:21AM -0500, Jacob S. wrote: On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 15:28:34 +0200 David Fokkema [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, the

Re: Creating MP3 for portable players

2004-06-21 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 03:28:40PM +0200, Jacques wrote: Keith O'Connell wrote: Hi, I have be badgered by my wife and daughter to learn how to pull tracks off their CD's into a format to play on their MP3 players, so I have been teaching myself over the weekend. I can pull from CD to

Re: Creating MP3 for portable players]

2004-06-21 Thread Keith O'Connell
John Smith wrote: Search at http://www.rarewares.org for a debian package called 'lame'. Had the same problem. It isn't included in debian.org because of copyright isues. OK, Thanks for that. I have downloaded a copy of lame, unless I am wrong this is a command line utility to convert wav to mp3.

Re: Creating MP3 for portable players]

2004-06-21 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Keith O'Connell ([EMAIL PROTECTED])[20040621 11:34]: I plan to write a script to take a batch of selected ogg tracks, use sox to convert ogg to wav, then pipe that into lame to convert the wav to mp3. Is this sensible plan or am I making too big a job out of this? It sounds sensible

Re: Creating MP3 for portable players]

2004-06-21 Thread Carl Fink
On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 07:34:29PM +0100, Keith O'Connell wrote: OK, Thanks for that. I have downloaded a copy of lame, unless I am wrong this is a command line utility to convert wav to mp3. I plan to write a script to take a batch of selected ogg tracks, use sox to convert ogg to wav,