From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FOGns-00066A-I3 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 28 Mar 2006 16:12:21 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.5) with SMTP id k2SGBMKr003619; Tue, 28 Mar 2006 16:11:22 GMT Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice02.Princeton.EDU [128.112.130.38]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k2SG2c3T001851 for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2006 16:02:39 GMT Received: from smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.148]) by Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id k2SG2bt3008335 for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2006 11:02:38 -0500 (EST) Received: from sep.dynalias.net (fez.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.190]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id k2SG2aOF017848 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NOT) for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2006 11:02:37 -0500 (EST) Received: by sep.dynalias.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id E59FE345C67; Tue, 28 Mar 2006 11:03:53 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 11:03:53 -0500 From: Willie Wong To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] MP3 conversion tool? Message-ID: <20060328160353.GA12065@princeton.edu> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <44295ABF.8060004@comcast.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <44295ABF.8060004@comcast.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Archives-Salt: ab5a8294-6c4d-439c-bb6e-63977e1be800 X-Archives-Hash: d4674076094f52a9acb590a16b4243fd 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 -- Q: "What is the best way to determine the volume of a little red ball." A: Physicist: Measure the diameter, devide by two for radius and use the formula 4/3 * PI * radius ^ 3 A: Chemist: Take a beaker, fill it with water. Dunk the ball in it, and measure the amount of water displaced. A: Engineer: It's easy, just pull out the "Little Red Ball" book and look it up. Sortir en Pantoufles: up 136 days, 8:26 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list