thanx for the pointers. i tried to get the LAME, but wasn't able to. i'll try that again.
btw, to provide streaming audio (i.e., realaudio, unless there is something else that is easily accessbible by general public), is there an alternative to the tools sold by realaudio? i suspect the answer is obvious no, but i thought i ask nevertheless. anyway, again, thanx for the information. byoung On Sat, 4 Dec 1999, aphro wrote: > On Sat, 4 Dec 1999, byoung wrote: > > b- >looking for conversion tool(s) between wav format and mp3 format, for > b- >linux. any lead? > > I use > > XMMS (www.xmms.org) for MP3 -> Wav > and not-LAME (optimized binary of LAME, see freshmeat.net) for wav-mp3 > > l3enc/l3dec work good too although they are shareware and have some bugs, > bladeenc encodes well but is slow (and more importantly) encodes much > lower quality then not-LAME (i encode all my stuff to 96kbps for my rio) > > there are also automated CD->WAV->MP3 rippers available look into RipperX > and Kgraber are the 2 im aware of. > > nate > > ----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- > Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ > Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ > Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/ > Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/ > Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/ > -----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- > 2:25pm up 107 days, 2:07, 5 users, load average: 1.87, 1.69, 1.62 > >