On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 05:29:02PM -0500, sean finney wrote: > On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 02:50:38PM -0500, Thomas H. George,,, wrote: > > I want to try mp3. I used apt-get to install jack. From the > > description I expected to work with its standard .jackrc file. It > > started smoothly using cdparanoia but, when the first cd track was > > extracted the error#32512 appeared. > > > > The man page for jack suggested other man pages including lame(1). I > > have no such man page and apt-cache search lame does not find a page > > with this name although there is a glame. > > lame is your mp3 encoder, and isn't available in debian because it's > technically (though debatebly) illegal to not pay frauenhoeffer a > royalty for using an mp3 encoder. if you happen to find the source > code for lame online, however, you'll notice it ships with a ./debian > directory, meaning you can do something like > > fakeroot ./debian/rules binary > > and presto have your own .deb for lame. anyway, if it's not installed, > i'd guess that's why you can't make mp3's unless you have another one > installed. > > _However_, i'd suggest you consider migrating to ogg vorbis. smaller > file size and better sound quality at the same time i've found, and > it's supported by the latest versions of mp3 players for all os's. i > don't know about jack, but abcde (another friendly frontend) handles > both ogg and mp3 quite well. > > > hth > sean
Thanks for the explanation; I was pretty poorly informed about all this. When I downloaded jack it pulled in vorbis-tools, libvorbis0 and libvorbisfile3. When I tried to run jack (the man page said just enter the command jack and watch things happen) it wrote a .jackrc file which set the encoder to oggenc. When I started jack again it used cdparanoia to rip a track from a cd and I got the error when it tried to encode the track. Now that I understand more about the encoders, ogg vorbis should meet my needs so my problem will be just to find the problem with oggenc. I'll try installing abcde and see how that works. Tom George PS I hit g (the group response in mutt) and it came up with your email address. Normally, it comes up with [EMAIL PROTECTED] If this doesn't show up on the user list, I'll re-post it and overwrite the address next time. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
