On Tue, 4 Jul 2000, Derek Fountain wrote: <-]Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2000 08:53:29 +0100 <-]From: Derek Fountain <-]To: SuSE English <-]Subject: [SLE] Making MP3s from CDs <-] <-]Can someone spell out for me the correct way of creating an <-]MP3 file from a CD using Linux? Is there a HOWTO or a <-]website with the required utilities somewhere? Hi Derek, To create mp3's from your CD tracks, you've got to: 1) Rip your CD tracks, that is CD --> music.wav, with a CD ripper such as cdparanoia and ccda2wav. 2) Encode your wave files with an encoder such as bladeenc or mp3encode or whatever... (music.wav --> music.mp3) An easy solution is to use a GUI frontend such as Grip to achive these two tasks at the same time. I am actually using Grip with Cdparanoia and Bladeenc and everything's fine. Have a look on freshmeat.net to find them, or look on your SuSE CD's (I don't think Grip's on the CD's though...). Good luck. /NB ________________ Nicolas Beaulieu Economics Department, Universite Laval Centre de Recherches en Economie et Finances Appliquees (CREFA) Quebec, Canada mailto:nicolas.beaulieu@ecn.ulaval.ca _________________ http://www.penguinpowered.com/~montesquieu ICQ 15933500 _________________ -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq

Two suggestions: - ripit.pl: On the SuSE CD's. Works from command line, may require moderate hacking to suit your taste. - grip: GTK+ ripper/encoder front end. I got mine from Helix GNOME. Works great, especailly with the gogo encoder. On Tue, 04 Jul 2000, you wrote:

I figured it was time I started doing what the entire world is doing and began listening to music through my PC. I've always used a minidisc player up till now. So last night I tried to figure out how to create music files on my machine.

I found a utility on my SuSE-6.3 system called cdda2wav, which created a .wav file from a track on an audio CD. I played it, and it was OK. Then I checked the filesize of the wav. Half a gigabyte. Hmmm. So that's the advantage of MP3s - they compress down.

So I tried to find something that would convert me a wav to an mp3. No luck there.

Can someone spell out for me the correct way of creating an MP3 file from a CD using Linux? Is there a HOWTO or a website with the required utilities somewhere?

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