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On Jan 29, 2008, Steven Cote was like: > 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. I'll try that. I need mp3 if I am sending a file to someone with an iPod but as for me I'd use vorbis or flac. ---------------------------------------- On Jan 29, 2008, Grant Sewell was like: > on Ubuntu 7.10: > gsewell@desktop:~$ apt-cache search mp3 library| wc -l > 88 > gsewell@desktop:~$ apt-cache search mp3 encoder| wc -l > 30 <snip> > than lame, which just so happens to be in that list anyway. :D It isn't in my list; do I need another repo in the sources.list? This is what I have now: deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free How does lame get round the software patent issues described in the 64Studio faq? > 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) I don't normally use 64 Studio; I just used it here to see if sox worked there (it does, because they have sensibly kept v12). -------------------------------------------------------------------- On Jan 29, 2008, Rob Beard was like: > 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). Yes, Debian has vorbis-tools Thanks to everyone Tony Sumner -- 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