At 10:00 AM 10/5/2001 -0400, you wrote:
On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, Vitaly Shishakov wrote:
Hello,
in KDE 2.2.1 control center i found an applet for configuring audiocd: protocol, with parameters for Ogg-vorbis and MP-3 encoding. When i open audiocd: in conquerror, among others i have an ogg-vorbis subfolder, from which i can drag files to wherewher i whant, and it will enccode the music on-the-fly. But i could not find the same feature for MP3 encoding -- do i miss something?
I don't know about the cddb issue, but I do know that I also have the same missing MP3 folder. It did work on another distribution before so I am pretty sure I am not missing anything. I wonder if some library is missing that MP3 encoding requires and therefore it is just skipping that folder when displaying the directories. Would be nice if there was some hinting to the problem.
I have a hint: because mp3 is patent encumbered, there's no legal way to distribute the few open source mp3 encoders that are in existence. SuSE could sued if they did. Probably the mechanisms are all there, but it's up to you to go find an archive of bladenc or lame and install it properly. Anyway, for that very reason you, nor anyone who cares about Free software, should not be using mp3. The only good excuse I can think of is if you have a Rio or some other hardware mp3 player that doesn't support Vorbis. And if you do you should be petitioning the hardware manufacturer for Vorbis support :-) P.S. Ogg Vorbis is a higher quality format anyway.
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On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, JW wrote:
At 10:00 AM 10/5/2001 -0400, you wrote:
On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, Vitaly Shishakov wrote:
Hello,
in KDE 2.2.1 control center i found an applet for configuring audiocd: protocol, with parameters for Ogg-vorbis and MP-3 encoding. When i open audiocd: in conquerror, among others i have an ogg-vorbis subfolder, from which i can drag files to wherewher i whant, and it will enccode the music on-the-fly. But i could not find the same feature for MP3 encoding -- do i miss something?
I don't know about the cddb issue, but I do know that I also have the same missing MP3 folder. It did work on another distribution before so I am pretty sure I am not missing anything. I wonder if some library is missing that MP3 encoding requires and therefore it is just skipping that folder when displaying the directories. Would be nice if there was some hinting to the problem.
I have a hint: because mp3 is patent encumbered, there's no legal way to distribute the few open source mp3 encoders that are in existence. SuSE could sued if they did.
Probably the mechanisms are all there, but it's up to you to go find an archive of bladenc or lame and install it properly.
Anyway, for that very reason you, nor anyone who cares about Free software, should not be using mp3. The only good excuse I can think of is if you have a Rio or some other hardware mp3 player that doesn't support Vorbis. And if you do you should be petitioning the hardware manufacturer for Vorbis support :-)
P.S. Ogg Vorbis is a higher quality format anyway.
Oh I don't doubt this, I use the Ogg stuff anyway, I was just saying that I had the same issue. Generally though I just don't rip sounds from CDs, no real reason to for me (besides I use all my open disk space for my little PVR type playing, video is much more interesting ;-). One thing for those who like the fact that you can float your mouse over an MP3 and have it play bit it doesn't for Ogg files, there is a simple solution to this. Move /opt/kde2/share/mimelnk/applications/x-ogg.desktop to /opt/kde2/share/mimelnk/audio/x-ogg.desktop and change the Mimetype line at the bottom of the file from application to audio. This may screw with download sites that have it set to application (why they would I don't know) but it does now make it so you can listen to the file by hovering your mouse over the icon. You may need to set a default application for it as K Media Player, I had already done this before I moved the files around so I am not positive if this is necessary.
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