[Wolves] audio file format change

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baza wrote:
> Ron Wellsted wrote:
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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?
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>>>> 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.
>>>
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>> 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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> Is there an 'evil' version of it that can encode .mp3 out there somewhere?
> 
> Baz
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I use audacity with lame

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