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, a

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,

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 logi

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. I

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 pul

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: > > > >

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 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 > > a

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 >

Re: Creating MP3 for portable players

2004-06-21 Thread Robert Waldner
On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 15:28:40 +0200, Jacques writes: >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 good GPL software. You migh

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 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 >

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 m

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

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 hit,