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Re: [LUG] sox woes
On 29/01/2008, Tony Sumner <tony@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.
When it comes to compressing audio, you're really spoiled for choice. What tool you use will largely depend on what you want the final file to be. If you care about maintaining the quality, a non-lossy compressor is what you want, something along the lines of flac.
If you don't mind sacrificing some quality for superior compression, then the lossy formats are the way to go, either ogg vorbis or mp3. I'll probably always think lame is the best tool for compressing wav data to mp3's. As for ogg's, I've tried a couple different ones, though none have ever particularly stood out. There's dir2ogg, oggconvert and of course oggenc. Any of those will get you going.
Those are all command line tools. There's also tonnes of frontends and dedicated graphical tools that do the same thing, but that should get you started.
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