On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 06:33:25PM -0500, Shyamal Prasad wrote:
| Hi,
|
| I'm an audio/video software luddite, but I finally want to replace my
| 200 CD Sony disc changer pile of junk with my fancy new Debian Woody
| workstation's sound capabilities. However, I'm starting to learn that
| MP3 encoding is patent encumbered, and the chances of finding a free,
| legal in the good ol' USA MP3 encoder for Linux are pretty nearly
| nil. Am I right?
More-or-less, yes.
| 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.
|
| 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 ripping. In the past I have used 'bladenc' for
mp3 encoding, but don't have it installed on my current system (and it
isn't packaged). Now I use 'oggenc' for encoding using the Ogg Vorbis
format. I get smaller .ogg files than the .mp3 was, and I think those
files are using a higher sampling too. It's all more-or-less the same
to me -- I have a Sound Blaster Pro (8 bit) sound card, cheap
speakers, and I am hearing impaired. I'm not going to be able to
detect minor differences in playback quality. I use xmms for
playback. Here's the relevant packages :
ii xmms 1.2.7-1 Versatile X audio player that looks like Win
ii vorbis-tools 1.0rc3-1 Several Ogg Vorbis Tools
ii cdparanoia 3a9.8-6 An audio extraction tool for sampling CDs.
-D
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Dishonest money dwindles away,
but he who gathers money little by little makes it grow.
Proverbs 13:11
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