[linux-audio-user] please excuse my IDIOCY!!!

[foltra at terra.cl]

On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, Robert Jonsson wrote:

> torsdagen den 16 oktober 2003 23.00 skrev Aaron Trumm:
> > sometimes I can be such a damn cone head.  I've sent this twice, letting it
> > be in html form which I think will get rejected  I hope y'all don't get
> > three copies of it.
> >
> > --
> > Hello all - here's something I'm having a bit of trouble with, I thought
> > y'all might know (hell it might've been in that huge mp3/ogg thread and I
> > just missed it)
> >
> > I need to be able to rip hi res mp3s (320kbs) for submission to certain
> > liscensing agencies (they insist) - but I haven't been able to figure out
> > how to do this on my linux box.  I know lame is the main backend - but I
> > had some kind of trouble a couple weeks back either locating it or finding
> > detailed info about it or something (I'm gonna go back and do this homework
> > again), and then of course there's the matter of a front end, which I don't
> > necessarily care about :) (but I remember not being able to figure out the
> > proper command line commands or something)
> >
> > I had much success doing 128kbs mp3s - grip does it, audacity will just
> > change a wav to an mp3, that's awesome, but they don't seem to deal with
> > higher resolution than 128 - something made me think it's just not
> > happening yet in linux and that I need to just rip them on my windows
> > machine...was I right about this?
> 
> nonono :)
> 
> Linux is the master of commandline tools, windows is just a poor clone :*}
> 
> long answer
> lame --help
> 
> short answer
> lame -b 320 <file name>
or lame --preset insane 	:-)

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