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KDE amazes me yet again
- From: Avi Schwartz <avi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 22:37:19 -0600
- Message-id: <3340000.1006576639@seahorse>
This feature might have been in KDE earlier but since I am now using
version 2.2.2 I cannot check if it was there before.
Apparently, KDE is now a CD ripper and it can convert CD tracks on the fly to Ogg Vorbis AND with the correct library installed it can convert CD tracks on the fly to mp3 files!
To activate the conversion to mp3, I had to download the lame-libs RPM. At least in version 7.2, SuSE does not ship this library. I found it on rpmfind. This installs the libmp3lame.so library which KDE needs.
Now open a konqueror file browser, click on the services pseudo directory in the directory tree on the left (if you have the extended sidebar showing). Click on the Audio CD Browser and you will see a MP3 directory. Drag a file from that directory into a directory you have write privileges to and the file will be copied and converted on the fly!
You can control the MP3 conversion settings (bit rate, etc.) from the KDE Control Center>Sound>Audiocd IO Slave>MP3 Settings.
Makes life so much easier. No need for all the mp3 tools I had to use before. If they only allowed editing the ID3 tags by modifying the properties of the mp3 file it would have been perfect.
Avi
--
Avi Schwartz
avi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
"I have to share the credit. I invented it, but Bill made it
famous." - IBM engineer Dave Bradley describing the
control-alt-delete reboot sequence
Apparently, KDE is now a CD ripper and it can convert CD tracks on the fly to Ogg Vorbis AND with the correct library installed it can convert CD tracks on the fly to mp3 files!
To activate the conversion to mp3, I had to download the lame-libs RPM. At least in version 7.2, SuSE does not ship this library. I found it on rpmfind. This installs the libmp3lame.so library which KDE needs.
Now open a konqueror file browser, click on the services pseudo directory in the directory tree on the left (if you have the extended sidebar showing). Click on the Audio CD Browser and you will see a MP3 directory. Drag a file from that directory into a directory you have write privileges to and the file will be copied and converted on the fly!
You can control the MP3 conversion settings (bit rate, etc.) from the KDE Control Center>Sound>Audiocd IO Slave>MP3 Settings.
Makes life so much easier. No need for all the mp3 tools I had to use before. If they only allowed editing the ID3 tags by modifying the properties of the mp3 file it would have been perfect.
Avi
--
Avi Schwartz
avi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
"I have to share the credit. I invented it, but Bill made it
famous." - IBM engineer Dave Bradley describing the
control-alt-delete reboot sequence
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