Re: [linux-audio-user] wav to mp3 converter

Re: mp3 vs. ogg... Several people have written suggesting I use ogg Vorbis instead of mp3. I really do get that. I'm not into the whole 'bleed-em-dry-with-a-proprietary-format' routine. And it is my intention to move toward making my recordings available in .ogg format as well. And! This little command line from Jan Depner is *GREAT*! : It does exactly the trick I need for making .ogg files out of my wav's. Perfect! for ogg... But I still gotta make mp3's. Why? Because I know who I'm dealing with. ;-) Most of the people I'm working with are not all that tech savvy and I know that if given a choice between playing an mp3 and download/configuring some new piece of software, they'll either play the mp3 or not at all. These are my siblings, folks. I really *know* them. Even if installation is truly easy, they're not gonna do it. But I want their musical involvement and the .wav files are just too big, so mp3's it is. For now. Eventually they'll upgrade when their old 'puterz die or they get too bloated and full of worms and viruses, and maybe then they'll have something that plays .ogg files. But until then, I have no intention of wasting my energy trying to get anyone else to change the way they do things. (We're quite a stubborn lot. ;-) ) So, I still gotta do the same trick as above somehow for the mp3's. a couple folks have sent me scripts. cool. I'll hack through them. But maybe also somebody could explain to me what the above magic command line is doing so I can subvert it to my own evil purposes. ;-) In the meantime, I've incorporated 'Jan's Magic Line' into my script and voila! I have a bunch of little oggies on my web site. By the way, if anyone is interested in hearing my stuff, or collaborating musically, I'd be willing to talk about that. Everything is all cheapo demos so far. The recordings are noisy and my voice sounds whinier than I'd like but hey, at least I'm not shy. ;-) and now I have all these new Linux music workstation tools to do *good* recordings with. :-) My site is here: http://www.josmusic.com/ The link to the dailies is at the bottom of the front page. Toodles! ~Jos~