[linux-audio-user] wav to mp3 converter

[Robert Jonsson]

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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