[Wolves] audio file format change

[Ron Wellsted]

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Chris Fox wrote:
> baza wrote:
>> Hi, what's the best Ubuntu package for converting audio files from say
>> .wav to .mp3 etc?
>>
>> Baz
> 
> i don't really know of a "universal" any_format to any_other_format GUI
> tool[1] but lame[2] will convert wav to mp3 at the command line, and a
> combination of grip[3] and lame is what i use to rip cds to mp3.
> 
> chris
> 
> [1] as an aside, cross-encoding from one lossy format to another (say,
> mp3 to ogg vorbis) is apparently a Naughty Thing To Do(tm) because it
> results in pretty poor sound quality or something.
> [2] http://packages.ubuntu.com/feisty/sound/lame
> [3] http://nostatic.org/grip/, "sudo apt-get install grip lame" i think.
> 

sox tries to be as universal as possible, within patent/licensing
restrictions, so the standard ubuntu universe version of sox can
decode.mp3 but will not encode .mp3


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