Re: recommend mp3 encoder

[Sean Johnson <snmjohnson@iclub.org>]

Go here:
	ftp://geek.rcc.se/pub/mp3encoder/lame/

Grab the latest one (3.51 as of 11/24/99).
Untar-unzip the .tar.gz file
cd lame3.51
make
(as root) make install

You may need to edit the Makefile, but I did not on my system.

Sean

Stuart Ballard wrote:
> 
> Dumb question - could anyone give me an "idiots walk-through" of
> installing LAME? It's probably somewhere simple, but all the stuff about
> "LAME won't even compile by itself" on the web page put me off. And of
> course there's no package for it...
> 
> Thanks very much in advance,
> Stuart.
> 
> Sean Johnson wrote:
> >
> > I used to compress @ 224 or 256 kbps with bladeenc, but now that I've
> > been using lame instead, I encode at 128 kbps and end up with files that
> > are quite a bit smaller and sound just as good. Lame also allows for
> > variable rate encoding which for many songs lets me drop the bitrate
> > down to 112 kbps and still maintain the same audio quality.
> >
> > Sean
> >