mp3 patents expired earlier this year, if I am not mistaken and it wasn't
in 2016 already.
So at this point, it does not matter other than on technical merit such as
encoder efficiency, perceived quality, etc.
Tomas
On Dec 3, 2017 11:21 AM, "Galen Seitz" wrote:
> On 12/03/17 10:54, Rich Shepar
On Sun, 3 Dec 2017, King Beowulf wrote:
Remember: when moving from a lossless format (WAV) to a lossy format (ogg
, mp3), you throw away a lot of data. transcoding to another lossy format
will further degrade the audio.
Ed,
Thus my question.
Recommendation: transcode to another, better lo
On Sun, 3 Dec 2017, King Beowulf wrote:
mp3 patent expired in May 2017. Lame and ffmpeg are now part of
Slackware-current (15.0 "real soon now").
Ed,
Good to know.
ogg vorbis is OK, but for audio fidelity I prefer FLAC, lossless
compression, unless I need to save space.
I was thinking
On 12/03/2017 12:34 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
...
>
> Since many have much greater experience than do I with manipulating audio
> files would it make sense to first uncompress the .mp3 file then recompress
> it to the ,ogg vorbis format? Or can the loss not be recovered so perhaps
> specifying a h
On 12/03/2017 11:55 AM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Sun, 3 Dec 2017, Rich Shepard wrote:
>
>> Audacity translated the file from .wav to .mp3. I'll look to see if it
>> supports the ogg flavors (I suspect so). If not, ffmpeg will do the job.
>
> Yes, audacity-2.1.3 exports to ogg vorbis.
>
> Rich
On Sun, 3 Dec 2017, Galen Seitz wrote:
If the files are for your own use, I suggest converting them to ogg vorbis
or to ogg opus. opus is the latest and greatest open codec, so your sox
might not support it. It certainly should support the vorbis codec.
Rummaging around the web I read that s
On Sun, 3 Dec 2017, Rich Shepard wrote:
Audacity translated the file from .wav to .mp3. I'll look to see if it
supports the ogg flavors (I suspect so). If not, ffmpeg will do the job.
Yes, audacity-2.1.3 exports to ogg vorbis.
Rich
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On Sun, 3 Dec 2017, Galen Seitz wrote:
mp3 is patent encumbered.
Galen,
Oh. That makes a difference.
If the files are for your own use, I suggest converting them to ogg vorbis
or to ogg opus. opus is the latest and greatest open codec, so your sox
might not support it. It certainly should
On 12/03/17 10:54, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Sun, 3 Dec 2017, Galen Seitz wrote:
>
>> Why do you want to convert these files to mp3?
>
> Galen,
>
> Because the .wav file (1032704 bytes) is much larger than the .mp3 file
> (391488 bytes).
>
>> What is your goal? Do you really need mp3? If not,
On Sun, 3 Dec 2017, Galen Seitz wrote:
Why do you want to convert these files to mp3?
Galen,
Because the .wav file (1032704 bytes) is much larger than the .mp3 file
(391488 bytes).
What is your goal? Do you really need mp3? If not, you should be able to
convert the files to any one of a n
On 12/03/17 05:58, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Sat, 2 Dec 2017, King Beowulf wrote:
>
>> The "wav" files can be in a number of formats, not just straight
>> uncompressed MS Windows audio PCM. You may want to search what format the
>> device uses for storage and/or compression, perhaps amr, awb, 3gp,
Don't know if it is relevant, and don't have time to look it up right now,
but my feeble memory just recalled using mpeg321 or mpeg123 or something
like that in processing mp3 files.
Might help, might not. Just throwing it out.
Michael
On Dec 3, 2017 06:03, "Rich Shepard" wrote:
> On Sat, 2 D
On Sat, 2 Dec 2017, Tomas Kuchta wrote:
The only way to workaround with your fstab way would be to do all below:
a) mount your USB disk to other place than media, so it is not of the way
for normal hotplug schemes
Nothing's mounted on /media other than links to /mnt/.
Thanks,
Rich
On Sat, 2 Dec 2017, King Beowulf wrote:
The "wav" files can be in a number of formats, not just straight
uncompressed MS Windows audio PCM. You may want to search what format the
device uses for storage and/or compression, perhaps amr, awb, 3gp,
wavpack, or some other format. codecs exist for th
On Sat, 2 Dec 2017, Tomas Kuchta wrote:
lame
ffmpeg
Tomas,
lame requires another library (faad2) and both are installed. There
apparently is an expected format that is not what the recorder provides. The
script I tried is:
#!/bin/sh
# name of this script: wav2mp3.sh
# wav to mp3
for i in
While I haven't used it recently, in the past I used lame extensively to
convert to mp3 files. I had dozens of cron jobs running, converting many
hours of wav recordings to mp3 and posting them on web pages on a daily
basis.
Michael
On Sat, Dec 2, 2017 at 4:34 PM, Tomas Kuchta
wrote:
> I wante
I wanted to post separately on your continued external disk troubles.
Unless you leave external USB resource management to standard hotplug you
will continue to have these kind of issues and conflicts.
The only way to workaround with your fstab way would be to do all below:
a) mount your USB disk
On 12/02/2017 03:11 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> I bought a small digital voice recorder which saves files in .wav format.
> I found a script to convert from .wav to .mp3, but this device apparently
> has a non-standard format (0x0011).
The "wav" files can be in a number of formats, not just straig
lame
ffmpeg
Should both work from command line given input.wav output.mp3 with optional
compression options.
ffmpeg in particular is the real "Swiss army knife" type of a tool.
-Tomas
On Dec 2, 2017 3:48 PM, "Dale Snell" wrote:
On Sat, 2 Dec 2017 15:11:45 -0800 (PST), in message
alpine.lnx.2
On Sat, 2 Dec 2017, Dale Snell wrote:
Audacity has always worked well for me when it comes to converting
sound files. FFMPEG is pretty good at conversions, too.
Dale,
Thanks. Dick Steffens suggested that and after upgrading audacity to the
latest version I found that it does do a good job
On Sat, 2 Dec 2017 15:11:45 -0800 (PST), in message
alpine.lnx.2.20.1712021502330.21...@salmo.appl-ecosys.com, Rich Shepard
wrote:
>I bought a small digital voice recorder which saves files in .wav
> format. I found a script to convert from .wav to .mp3, but this
> device apparently has a non-
I bought a small digital voice recorder which saves files in .wav format.
I found a script to convert from .wav to .mp3, but this device apparently
has a non-standard format (0x0011).
Another web search found Sound eXchanger (SoX) which will not only change
wav formats but convert among many
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