Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2731 mails)

[Charles Philip Chan <cpchan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 21:24:40 PDT
Carl William Spitzer IV <cwsiv@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Actually the conversions are from wav and mid files not on CD which I
> want to convert to mp3 for use on legacy.  I never heard of using lame
> to convert anything but music cd format?  Ill try that on this box. 

You can convert midi to wav by using Timidity which is included on the
CD. Then you can convert the wav to anything you want. lame, ogg and
FLAC can use the wav's as input. 

> Actually my music files ripped into both mp3 and ogg the latter came
> out about 100k larger on average.

Interest, what switches are you using? I use "--preset standard" for
lame and "-q6" for oggenc (they are considered to be roughly the same
quality) and my vorbis file size are almost always smaller. I am already
using oggencgt3b1 which produce slightly larger files until Garf bring
them more inline with the regular -q settings (in terms of bitrate and
file size) which will happen in the 1.0.1 maintenance release.

Charles

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