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On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 12:33:47 +0000 Tony Sumner wrote: > I've been recording stuff and creating .wav files and I thought it > might be a good idea to compress them. There may be lots of ways of > doing this but the only one I know of is sox and sox won't recognize > the format. This seems to be a bug in v14.0.0 that people have > complained of since November. I've got 64Studio so I tried there and > sox (v12.17.9) works ok and I was able to create ogg vorbis versions. > > sox will read mp3 if you install libmad but it can't write mp3, is > that right? Is there some software that will, short of moving the > file into Windows? > > Tony on Ubuntu 7.10: gsewell@desktop:~$ apt-cache search mp3 library| wc -l 88 gsewell@desktop:~$ apt-cache search mp3 encoder| wc -l 30 There's more than enough there to be looking at. :D I haven't got much experience of creating mp3 files with anything other than lame, which just so happens to be in that list anyway. :D 64Studio is a Debian based system, so you can always add Debian and/or Ubuntu repositories to your /etc/apt/sources.list file (as detailed in http://64studio.com/faq_user) to get access to other software not directly provided by 64Studio... be aware that you might want to read around on the topic to make non-64Studio repositories "less favourable" so that if a package is provided by 64Studio, *that* one gets installed in preference to Debian/Ubuntu's (or whatever). Hope this helps. Good luck. Grant. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html