Jos van Kan wrote:

I have used lame for years and the mp3 files, certainly at the higher bitrates (>= -b128 -q5) are quite good. Did you try lame from the command line? I now use kaudiocreator/lame with even better resulte. (It uses a varying bitrate). So grip must be the culprit.

Regards, Jos.

I have kaudiocreator installed, which is supposed to include the lame encoder, and indeed it has installed /opt/kde3/lib/kde3/libaudiocd_encoder_lame.so (and .la) however I cannot get lame to work from the command line (bash: lame: command not found) and from kaudiocreator ripping to the lame encoder fails with a "lame encoder not found" error. Any idea what has gone wrong? -- Tim Nicholson http://www.bbc.co.uk/ This e-mail (and any attachments) is confidential and may contain personal views which are not the views of the BBC unless specifically stated. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system. Do not use, copy or disclose the information in any way nor act in reliance on it and notify the sender immediately. Please note that the BBC monitors e-mails sent or received. Further communication will signify your consent to this.

John Andersen wrote:

On Wednesday 30 March 2005 11:25 pm, Tim Nicholson wrote:

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I have kaudiocreator installed, which is supposed to include the lame encoder, and indeed it has installed /opt/kde3/lib/kde3/libaudiocd_encoder_lame.so (and .la) however I cannot get lame to work from the command line (bash: lame: command not found) and from kaudiocreator ripping to the lame encoder fails with a "lame encoder not found" error.

Any idea what has gone wrong?

You have not installed lame.

If you did it would be found in /usr/bin/lame Those other files are simply libs and such used by kde to invoke lame.

Best place to find it is http://packman.links2linux.de

How bizarre not to include it in the distro, but include tools that rely on it! I'm sure it came with earlier versions (8.2), but perhaps my memory is playing tricks again#( -- Tim http://www.bbc.co.uk/ This e-mail (and any attachments) is confidential and may contain personal views which are not the views of the BBC unless specifically stated. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system. Do not use, copy or disclose the information in any way nor act in reliance on it and notify the sender immediately. Please note that the BBC monitors e-mails sent or received. Further communication will signify your consent to this.

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2005-03-30 11:55:31 -0500 Jos van Kan <vankan@kabelfoon.nl> wrote:

I now use kaudiocreator/lame with even better resulte. (It uses a varying bitrate). So grip must be the culprit.

I don't like the default settings in grip. However, Grip allows you to set the commandline options for the programs. Here are my settings: oggenc: -o %m -a %a -l %d -t %n -q 6 %w lame (desktop): --preset standard %w %m lame (portable): --preset standard -Y %w %m Also, make sure that lame is choosen as the encoder for mp3's. There are several you can use with Grip. Charles -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using the GPG bundle for GNUMail iD8DBQFCTKMI3epPyyKbwPYRAsubAKCX1oCQc3X442c8spIH77ArQG1pngCfdfRj d1seuMSy9Q1nXNKF2ks00yU= =KQB1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

On Wednesday 30 March 2005 17:18, Peter Nikolic wrote:

Try using oggenc ogg is a lot better than mp3 i have canned all my mp3's and switched to ogg .

I agree. I never use mp3 any more. My favorite ogg setting is specifying quality rather than bitrate (to a very high quality mode) oggenc infile.wav -q 9 out.ogg Bryan ******************************************************** Powered by SuSE Linux 9.2 Professional KDE 3.3.0 KMail 1.7.1 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson bryantyson@earthlink.net ********************************************************