Re: Creating MP3 for portable players
On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 02:09:09PM +0100, Keith O'Connell wrote:
> 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?
I don't rip to mp3 anymore since I don't have an mp3 player and ogg is
better, :-). But I used to use LAME (Lame Ain't an Mp3 Encoder) which is
quite good. It is available from Christian Marillat. Just add
deb http://marillat.free.fr/ unstable main
to your apt sources.
David
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