----- Original Message ----- From: "Rainer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, July 05, 2002 9:34 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] encoding mp3s on mandrake ...
> thanks for the reply. don't have this app., under 'what to do' i've got xmms > and some wav recorder, possibly called kwav. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Alastair Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, July 05, 2002 1:33 PM > Subject: Re: [newbie] encoding mp3s on mandrake ... > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Friday 05 July 2002 6:25 pm, Rainer wrote: > > Asked this question previously, with very little detail supplied as a > > response - only what apps could be used. this is a newbie mailing > > list, right? > > > > right now i got ripperX-2.1-1.i386.rpm, will this work on man. 8.2. > > if there is something better, please let me know (and where i can > > find it). once that is settled i, -ivh the rpm from the command line? > > i can then find it where, /bin ? from there i can make a shortcut to > > the desktop? this is a gui app, i'm told, is it pretty > > straightforward to use for someone coming from windows and musicmatch > > or is there something i should know. the 'how to' made it seem pretty > > simple? > > There's probably a better application installed by default - look in the > K menu for What to do | Enjoy music & video | Rip a CD. This runs grip, > which is a very nice ripper. All you do is put the CD in the drive, > select the tracks to be ripped from the Track tab, then select the Rip > tab and press Rip+Encode. > > (Because of the way ripping is done in Linux it dumps the CD contents to > [uncompressed] WAV files then converts them to [compressed] MP3; if you > press Rip you'll just get WAVs]. > > There's a useful change worth doing to the default configuration, > though, namely changing the rip format from MP3 to OGG (Ogg Vorbis), > which gives you smaller but better-quality rips. To do this in grip, > select the Config tab, then the MP3 tab, then the Encoder tab, then > change the Encoder: pulldown to oggenc, then rip as before. > > This is worthwhile reading about Ogg Vorbis: > > http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/index.html > > Alastair > - -- > Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) > http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org > > iD8DBQE9Jdh9Cv59vFiSU4YRAh1SAJ45i9fFplIS77P8kKmFw3bdzeCbHACdHuhx > 37obsrNPW36JFSPjho8UDpc= > =BP83 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- > ---- > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > >
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