Re: dumb wav->mp3 question
On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 06:34:58PM -0400, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 09:42:31PM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote:
> :On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 03:30:18PM -0400, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote:
> :> what's the command to convert .wav files to mp3 format?
> :
> :You want "lame" for that.
>
> Perhaps that's what I want, but I'm 99% certain I apt-got something
> that does this, and lame isn't apt-able (well not from normal sources)
>
> :Better is to use the ogg format instead of mp3. Ogg is free.
> :It is also said to be technically better. Install vorbis-tools.
>
> I did run across that, where "technically better" == lossless
>
> For my current streaming purposes I converted the files to realaudio
> (even worse than mp3 from a freesoftware perspective), I'll need to
> review ogg support in main stream clients before comitting...
>
> And it hurts my brain that I did this less than two weeks ago and
> can't find the tool I used.
You may be looking for 'sox'.
(I'm often in the same situation of having difficulty remembering the
name of the program to do something.)
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