Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] wav to mp3 converter
From: Robert Jonsson (rj_AT_spamatica.se)
Date: Sun May 30 2004 - 14:09:50 EEST
Ok, standard disclaimer.
mp3 is bad, ogg vorbis good! ;-)
I guess there are real world reasons to use mp3 (mainly availability) but they
are quickly going away.
If possible I think one should opt for vorbis.
The latest round of tests:
http://www.rjamorim.com/test/multiformat128/results.html
suggest vorbis is also superior to mp3 when the best encoders are used.
Ogg ogg ogg.
/Robert
söndagen den 30 maj 2004 09.58 skrev Jos Laake:
> R Parker wrote:
> > Hi Jos,
> >
> > I use lame. From my script:
> > elif [ "$extension" = wav ]; then
> > echo "Converting $i to ${i%.*}.mp3 be
> > patient!"
> > lame -h $i ${i%.*}.mp3
> > else
>
> Okay, cool! Lame is gonna do the trick. I did a few
> trial conversions using a command line similar to what
> you used and I'm getting a really good compression rate
> and totally acceptable quality. Bravo!
>
> > If you want the script, I'll send it to you.
>
> Please! :-)
>
> > It's not
> > that great because it's partially a learning
> > experiment and builds an array from the contents of a
> > directory--not necesarry but you can strip the array
> > code out. It also assumes the directory structure
> > ~/clients/clientname/wav, ~/clients/clientname/mp3,
> > etc.
>
> I hate scripting. I'll be happy to start with whatever
> you can send me. I'd much rather hack a script that I
> can kinda understand already than try to do it from
> scratch.
>
> > At any rate, Lame produces mp3 files. I use it for
> > that although I've never listened to one. :)
>
> I listened to the files I made. Yup, it works jes fine!
>
> Thank you!
> ~Jos~
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