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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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