Re: taking many 198k mp3 files and converting them to 16k mp3

2006-09-01 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 10:08:04AM +0100, Howard Jones wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If your DVD player can't play mp3s, then it can't play DVDs. ;) Remember, mp3s are the audio layer of mpegs. And DVD videos consist of mpegs. For a DVD-Video disc, the audio formats are PCM (plain old

Re: taking many 198k mp3 files and converting them to 16k mp3

2006-08-30 Thread andrew clarke
On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 06:13:40PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I suppose I can buy a DVD-R[W] and fnd out, but is there any reason why I can't have many hours of audio on a DVD? In other words, id a DVD *only* for video? --Might be nice to gather (parts of) my favorite CD's onto

Re: taking many 198k mp3 files and converting them to 16k mp3

2006-08-30 Thread Howard Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If your DVD player can't play mp3s, then it can't play DVDs. ;) Remember, mp3s are the audio layer of mpegs. And DVD videos consist of mpegs. For a DVD-Video disc, the audio formats are PCM (plain old wav, effectively), AC-3 (dolby digital) and MPEG-1 Audio Layer II

Re: taking many 198k mp3 files and converting them to 16k mp3

2006-08-28 Thread Howard Jones
Gary Kline wrote: Well, if/when you *do* try, please clue me in. --I'm too new to DVD's and tooo che--er, thrifty to buy a ten pack of blanks. I'm not sure that I have three hours of favorites; probably, but no more. Most of my favorite tunes are on

Re: taking many 198k mp3 files and converting them to 16k mp3

2006-08-28 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 01:56:31PM +0100, Howard Jones wrote: Gary Kline wrote: Well, if/when you *do* try, please clue me in. --I'm too new to DVD's and tooo che--er, thrifty to buy a ten pack of blanks. I'm not sure that I have three hours of favorites; probably, but no

Re: taking many 198k mp3 files and converting them to 16k mp3

2006-08-27 Thread andrew clarke
On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 10:36:54PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: Is there a way of using sox (or another translator) to turn HUGE audio mp3 files into much much smaller files? Say taking man mp3 files that are stored at 198k high fidelity and outputting these to 16k or 32k mp3 (or *.ogg or

Re: taking many 198k mp3 files and converting them to 16k mp3

2006-08-27 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 04:01:23PM +1000, andrew clarke wrote: On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 10:36:54PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: Is there a way of using sox (or another translator) to turn HUGE audio mp3 files into much much smaller files? Say taking man mp3 files that are stored at 198k

Re: taking many 198k mp3 files and converting them to 16k mp3

2006-08-27 Thread hackmiester (Hunter Fuller)
On 27 August 2006, at 02:49, Gary Kline wrote: Ah, thank you, thank you. I just can't see wasting so much of my disk [and bakup disks] for what are mostly voice/lectures. I suppose I can buy a DVD-R[W] and fnd out, but is there any reason why I can't have many hours of

Re: taking many 198k mp3 files and converting them to 16k mp3

2006-08-27 Thread dgmm
On Sunday 27 August 2006 06:36, Gary Kline wrote: files. Reply-To: X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing twenty years of service to the Unix community Is there a way of using sox (or another translator) to turn HUGE audio

Re: taking many 198k mp3 files and converting them to 16k mp3

2006-08-27 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 03:04:10PM -0500, hackmiester (Hunter Fuller) wrote: On 27 August 2006, at 02:49, Gary Kline wrote: Ah, thank you, thank you. I just can't see wasting so much of my disk [and bakup disks] for what are mostly voice/lectures. I suppose I can

Re: taking many 198k mp3 files and converting them to 16k mp3

2006-08-27 Thread Howard Jones
hackmiester (Hunter Fuller) wrote: On 27 August 2006, at 02:49, Gary Kline wrote: --Might be nice to gather (parts of) my favorite CD's onto one Very long-playing disk. That would require you to burn an audio DVD, which you couldn't read in a normal CD drive... and I really don't know

Re: taking many 198k mp3 files and converting them to 16k mp3

2006-08-27 Thread hackmiester (Hunter Fuller)
On 27 August 2006, at 16:26, Gary Kline wrote: I have a DVD burner in my newest server; my thinking is that I would burn some N *.mp3 files onto a DVD, then play it back. On what? The questions are whether I would have to create a filesystem, or if the DVD

Re: taking many 198k mp3 files and converting them to 16k mp3

2006-08-27 Thread hackmiester (Hunter Fuller)
On 27 August 2006, at 16:38, Howard Jones wrote: hackmiester (Hunter Fuller) wrote: That would require you to burn an audio DVD, which you couldn't read in a normal CD drive... and I really don't know how exactly you would do it either... Not necessarily. Both of my current DVD players

Re: taking many 198k mp3 files and converting them to 16k mp3

2006-08-27 Thread steveb
Ah, thank you, thank you. I just can't see wasting so much of my disk [and bakup disks] for what are mostly voice/lectures. I suppose I can buy a DVD-R[W] and fnd out, but is there any reason why I can't have many hours of audio on a DVD? In other words, id a

Re: taking many 198k mp3 files and converting them to 16k mp3

2006-08-27 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 10:38:05PM +0100, Howard Jones wrote: hackmiester (Hunter Fuller) wrote: On 27 August 2006, at 02:49, Gary Kline wrote: --Might be nice to gather (parts of) my favorite CD's onto one Very long-playing disk. That would require you to burn an audio DVD, which you

Re: taking many 198k mp3 files and converting them to 16k mp3

2006-08-26 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 8/27/06, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way of using sox (or another translator) to turn HUGE audio mp3 files into much much smaller files? Say taking man mp3 files that are stored at 198k high fidelity and outputting these to 16k or 32k mp3