Alain, Thanks for the answer. I installed ecasound and it appears pretty complicated to me, a first time user. Could you give me some tips on how to convert an MP3 that has a bit-rate of 128k and a sample rate of 44,000 to something of much less quality. I need to reduce the quality on several MP3's so they can be stream on low-speed connections Thanks, Matt ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Alain Barthélemy <cassandre@bartydeux.be> Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 14:57:47 +0100

Le mercredi 17 décembre 2003, 04:05:53 ou environ Matt Stamm <suselist@jemka.com> a écrit:

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I am running Suse 8.1 and I need to convert some hi-quality MP3 files (128kbps) to lo-quality MP3 files (maybe 24kbps). I also need to convert some WAV files to MP3. Is there a tool in the 8.1 distro to do this?

Any recommendations?

Matt

To convert audio-types I like very much ecasound (package available in SuSE-8.1).

To convert audio files:

ecasound -i file.wav -o file.mp3

or

ecasound -i file.wav -o file.ogg

Of course lame (or is it mpg123) or oggenc must be installed too.

I like ecasound to capture radio signals:

ecasound -c -a:1,2 -i /dev/dsp -o -a:1 file.cdr -a:2 file.ogg

Then a few minutes to burn you audio CD with cdrecord (or a Windows-like GUI).

-- Alain Barthélemy cassandre@bartydeux.be http://www.bartydeux.be Linux User #315631

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