On Saturday 13 August 2005 11:00 pm, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 14 August 2005 01:18, Paul Johnson wrote: > >On Saturday 13 August 2005 10:08 pm, Rishi wrote: > >> Hi > >> > >> Is there any program on Debian that can convert a wave file into > >> mp3? > > > >No, because of BMG Music's patent on MPEG Layer 3 encoders. There > > are unofficial packages for encoders (like lame) available from > > sources that can be readily found at http://www.apt-get.org/ . > > If you want a 100% Debian's-idea-of-free way of accomplishing the > > same thing, look into the patent-unencumbered Ogg Vorbis format > > instead. > > Shame, you forgot to mention that ogg/vorbis files of the same > source, and the same size as the .mp3 files would be, sound better > in almost any a/b comparison. I figured I would let someone who knew the details pipe up on that part, as I'm not totally down with the benchmark comparisons between the two. I would love it if someone could post what quantitative comparisons that can be made between the two formats, however.
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