On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 01:41, William Hooper wrote:
Audioslave - 7M3 - Live said:
Lamar Owen wrote:
On Sunday 30 March 2003 15:23, Mike A. Harris wrote:
Sure. But I think anyone is a fool if they don't honestly acknowledge what the major usage of MP3 is for. People may deny it to prove their point, but then there is a reality behind all of that that proves otherwise.
MP3 is used in many more venues than just piracy of copyrighted works. Many internet radio streams are MP3 (shoutcast and icecast both support mp3 streaming). RHL 9 can't play those streams. Well, actually, it can't play Real streams, either; or Windows Media streams either....
I often receive public service announcements for the radio station in MP3 form via e-mail. It's a drag to have to reboot to use Cool Edit Pro to unrip to wav for the automation system (which has a couple hundred gig of wav's for the air signal).
Having an mp3 to wave program. Then converting the files to ogg format might be a decent feature to have.
On the "Red Hat Speaks" page: " Now, if you're really crazy, and want to unencode your mp3's to wav, and into a format you won't get hassled by "The Man [tm]" for using, get mp32ogg: http://faceprint.com/software.phtml";
Quality will suffer...
-- William Hooper
Hi,
Yes lossy to lossy will degrade quality, but if your not working with studio quality sound the difference a.k.a quality loss is unnoticeable.
An alternate method for the actual converting is install mpg321 for shrike.
http://shrike.freshrpms.net/rpm.html?id=171
Next turn the text between the // below into a shell script. Make it executable and then you can drop it system wide or into a directory of mp3 files and run. The script will convert all files (maintaining the filename always) from mp3 to wav deleting the mp3 files as it goes. Then it will ogg encode the wav files at the quality ratio specified in the script and delete all the wav files.
// Start of script
#!/bin/sh # # Filename: mp3_to_ogg.sh # # Author: Philip Wyett - [EMAIL PROTECTED] #
# # Convert our mp3 files back to wav # for filename in *.mp3 do filename=${filename%.mp3} mpg123 -w "$filename".wav "$filename".mp3 rm -f "$filename".mp3 done
# # Ogg encode our wav files. # for filename in *.wav do # Default quality is 5, change below to preferred '1 - 10'. oggenc -q 5 "$filename" rm -f "$filename" done
// End of script
If you want to keep the mp3 files _do not_ run this script in a dir of files you wish to keep and move the files to be converted to a temp location first for the actual conversion process. Have fun. :)
Regards
Philip Wyett
Thanks Phillip!
The script and mpg321 version worked great! It looks like the mp3s will be ogged, if the loss is not extremely noticable.
Jim
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