Shyamal Prasad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If this is the case, what is the "Debian recommended" or "Debian > user consensus" (if any) on an audio encoder for my CDs? I don't > care if it's actually not MP3 - but it must be free, it must be > legal, and reasonable performance and player choices would be nice.
Use Ogg Vorbis instead of MP3. The codec isn't patent-encumbered, the standard encoder is free-as-in-speech, the compression is generally better than MP3 for the same sound quality (or the sound quality is better at the same compression), and all of the software you need is in Debian (testing/unstable, at least). > Is it toolame what I want? Or what? A recommendation for a > ripper/encoder and juke box player would be most welcome. I use cdparanoia for a ripper and oggenc for an encoder; abcde (which, sadly, lacks a spinning fish) is a nice simple text-mode front-end that combines these two and CDDB queries to produce a pile of .ogg files from a CD. XMMS works fine as a player (I don't like its UI, personally, but it's better than anything else out there); the canonical command-line player is ogg123. -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
