lame ffmpeg Should both work from command line given input.wav output.mp3 with optional compression options.
ffmpeg in particular is the real "Swiss army knife" type of a tool. -Tomas On Dec 2, 2017 3:48 PM, "Dale Snell" <ddsn...@frontier.com> wrote: On Sat, 2 Dec 2017 15:11:45 -0800 (PST), in message alpine.lnx.2.20.1712021502330.21...@salmo.appl-ecosys.com, Rich Shepard wrote: > I bought a small digital voice recorder which saves files in .wav > format. I found a script to convert from .wav to .mp3, but this > device apparently has a non-standard format (0x0011). > > Another web search found Sound eXchanger (SoX) which will not only > change wav formats but convert among many different types. > Unfortunately, the build script available at SlackBuilds.org does not > compile with mp2 and mp3 support (I've written the maintainer about > this). But, ... > > Until I get sox working to convert from .wav to .mp3 another > search taught me that the 'play' capability within sox produces > sounds from .wav files on linux. This is an interim solution. Are > there other audio format converters that I might try on these files? Audacity has always worked well for me when it comes to converting sound files. FFMPEG is pretty good at conversions, too. > On a related issue, /var/log/messages shows that the recorder is > seen as the SCSI disk /dev/sdb. I have an entry in /etc/fstab for my > 3T external hard drive (ext3 file system) which the kernel sees > as /dev/sdb assigned to /mnt/hd/. Root can mount the vfat file system > recorder on /mnt/hd/; can two devices (with different file systems) > be listed in /etc/fstab to be mounted on the same mount point? Give your 3TB hard drive a label, and use that label in fstab to reference the drive when mounting it. Or you could use a UUID, but those are much longer to type. :-) The kernel assigns drive locations on a first-come first-served basis, so using a label of some sort is much more reliable than a drive location. Hope this helps. --Dale -- Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining. -- Jeff Raskin _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug