On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 08:40:21AM -0500, Jacob S. wrote: > On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 15:28:34 +0200 > David Fokkema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 02:09:09PM +0100, Keith O'Connell wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I have be badgered by my wife and daughter to learn how to pull > > > tracks off their CD's into a format to play on their MP3 players, so > > > I have been teaching myself over the weekend. > > > > > > I can pull from CD to Ogg on my machine and I can put tracks onto > > > CD-R all very happily. The problem I have hit, and it must have been > > > hit many times is the one of formats. > > > > > > We each have one of the following, that play the formats as shown; > > > > > > Palm T3 (realplayer) mp3 rm rmj > > > iRiver player mp3 wma asf > > > Creative Rhomba mp3 wma > > > > > > I have been up and down the listings in Aptitude, and I cannot find > > > out how to stay within Debian and (i) rip to mp3, or better still > > > (ii) convert ogg to mp3 for the players > > > > > > Is this a licensing thing? How do list members get files suitable > > > for portable players that don't play ogg? > > > > I don't rip to mp3 anymore since I don't have an mp3 player and ogg is > > better, :-). But I used to use LAME (Lame Ain't an Mp3 Encoder) which > > is quite good. It is available from Christian Marillat. Just add > > > > deb http://marillat.free.fr/ unstable main > > > > to your apt sources. > > Actually, the url for Marillat's packages changed several months ago, > as his service was getting too popular and using too much bandwidth. I > use the following line in/etc/apt/sources.list now.
Indeed! I get a 503 now. How long has this been? I update regularly and would swear that this 503 has only been there for a few days at most since I've never noticed it before. > deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ stable main > > (Note that I track stable. You can modify the line to track testing or > unstable, as well.) Done! Thanks! David -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus. Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
