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On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 12:33 +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 > I've just been using LAME from the command line for something similar (checking automation of a radio play out system). I just simply used the command line: lame sourcefile.wav destinationfile.mp3 I'm guessing you could do the same with oggenc (which is in the vorbis-tools package on Ubuntu and presumably Debian too). Rob -- 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