Re: [gentoo-user] MP3 conversion tool?

[Willie Wong <wwong@Princeton.EDU>]

On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 10:48:15AM -0500, Penguin Lover Jeff squawked:
> Hey all.
> 
> Wondering, is there a neat command-line tool that can convert MP3 into
> other formats?
> 

Personally I don't like transcoding from MP3 to other formats because
of the quality loss. That said: you can do a lot with 'sox'

[11:02 AM]wwong ~ $ emerge search sox
Searching...   
[ Results for search key : sox ]
[ Applications found : 1 ]
 
*  media-sound/sox
      Latest version available: 12.17.7-r1
      Latest version installed: 12.17.7-r1
      Size of downloaded files: 455 kB
      Homepage:    http://sox.sourceforge.net
      Description: The swiss army knife of sound processing programs
      License:     LGPL-2.1

And if you want it in some format sox cannot deal with, you can always
convert first to wav/aiff/raw and convert again to your target format
with usually no additional quality loss. 

W
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