Re: CD to MP3 Util

[David Z Maze <dmaze@MIT.EDU>]

Timothy C Phan <tphan@iqrinc.com> writes:
TCP> Is there any utility to convert CD files to MP3 files on Linux?

I highly recommend abcde.  You'll have to provide your own encoder.

On Woody, abcde defaults to producing OggVorbis files; it's the same
concept as MP3, but free of nasty patent problems.  (See
http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/ for details on both Vorbis and the
patent issues with MP3.)  The current version of xmms has a Vorbis
player, and ogg123 works for the command-line.

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