Creating MP3 for portable players

[Keith O'Connell <kroc@blueyonder.co.uk>]

Hi,

I have be badgered by my wife and daughter to learn how to pull tracks 
off their CD's into a format to play on their MP3 players, so I have 
been teaching myself over the weekend.

I can pull from CD to Ogg on my machine and I can put tracks onto CD-R 
all very happily. The problem I have hit, and it must have been hit many 
times is the one of formats.

We each have one of the following, that play the formats as shown;

     Palm T3 (realplayer)	mp3	rm    rmj
     iRiver player	 	mp3	wma   asf
     Creative Rhomba	 	mp3	wma

I have been up and down the listings in Aptitude, and I cannot find out 
how to stay within Debian and (i) rip to mp3, or better still (ii) 
convert ogg to mp3 for the players

Is this a licensing thing? How do list members get files suitable for 
portable players that don't play ogg?

Keith
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  Keith O'Connell.
  Maidstone, Kent. (UK)
  kroc@blueyonder.co.uk