On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 15:28:34 +0200 David Fokkema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 02:09:09PM +0100, Keith O'Connell wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have be badgered by my wife and daughter to learn how to pull > > tracks off their CD's into a format to play on their MP3 players, so > > I have been teaching myself over the weekend. > > > > I can pull from CD to Ogg on my machine and I can put tracks onto > > CD-R all very happily. The problem I have hit, and it must have been > > hit many times is the one of formats. > > > > We each have one of the following, that play the formats as shown; > > > > Palm T3 (realplayer) mp3 rm rmj > > iRiver player mp3 wma asf > > Creative Rhomba mp3 wma > > > > I have been up and down the listings in Aptitude, and I cannot find > > out how to stay within Debian and (i) rip to mp3, or better still > > (ii) convert ogg to mp3 for the players > > > > Is this a licensing thing? How do list members get files suitable > > for portable players that don't play ogg? > > I don't rip to mp3 anymore since I don't have an mp3 player and ogg is > better, :-). But I used to use LAME (Lame Ain't an Mp3 Encoder) which > is quite good. It is available from Christian Marillat. Just add > > deb http://marillat.free.fr/ unstable main > > to your apt sources. Actually, the url for Marillat's packages changed several months ago, as his service was getting too popular and using too much bandwidth. I use the following line in/etc/apt/sources.list now. deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ stable main (Note that I track stable. You can modify the line to track testing or unstable, as well.) HTH, Jacob -- GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 Random .signature #12: Linux: Because a PC is a terrible thing to waste.
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