On 14 Jan 2003 16:25:26 -0500
Mike Manchester <mchester@pobox.com> wrote:
> Can someone please tell me how to make mp3 files from cds'? Seems that
> every thing in Redmond 8.0 is creating ogg files. I used to use grip in
> Redhat 7.3 but with 8.0 I can't. I seem to be missing the ability to
> make mp3 files. Even mp3encode is set to create ogg files. I can't get
> mp3encode to compile anyway. Damn I've got a walkman that will mp3's but
> no way to create them. Guess I'll just have to go to gnutella and
> download them :)
>
> Thanks
> Mike M.
I use lame ( http://www.mp3dev.org/mp3/ ) to encode mp3s. You can tell grip which encoder it should be using, as well. There's another pretty good ripper/encoder/whathaveyou called abcde ( http://lly.org/~rcw/abcde/ ), but it doesn't have a GUI. abcde also encodes oggs by default, but you can tell it to use whatever encoder, just like grip. BTW, the reason that most open-source apps default to ogg is that ogg vorbis is a free compression standard (or whatever the correct term is) and mp3 is not. Same reason lots of OSS apps prefer pngs to gifs.
Levi
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