.wav to .mp3 utilities recommended.

[tim042849]

Hi:

I'm looking for a utility to convert .wav files - audio files from cd -
to mp3 files.
FYI: I'm a programmer, but new to multimedia on linux,
comfortable with the command line.
Recommendations invited.
More spefically, I've got an Oasis Media Player and would like
to copy Music CDs to it.

Thanks
Tim

[johnny utah]

Re: .wav to .mp3 utilities recommended.

http://pacpl.sourceforge.net/

This tools is awesome. Converts just about anything to anything. Super powerful on the command line and integrates into Konqueror if you prefer a GUI. There's a .deb package too.

[tim042849]

Re: .wav to .mp3 utilities recommended.

8) Thanks for the tip. Just downloaded it.
cheers

[marshallbanana]

Re: .wav to .mp3 utilities recommended.

Personally I like soundKonverter, it's great for all batch (and individual) conversions between almost any two audio codecs. You can find it in the repos.

[dibl]

Re: .wav to .mp3 utilities recommended.

Audacity is pretty hard to beat, IMO.

[tim042849]

Re: .wav to .mp3 utilities recommended.

Yeah! That's what I was trying to remember. Got it!
Thank you.
Tim

[disturbedite]

Re: .wav to .mp3 utilities recommended.

i have to agree with marshallbanana, soundkonverter is what i prefer also.

although, i usually recommend that ppl don't convert to mp3 unless they really need to. its an inferior proprietary format. ogg is superior & is FOSS. or better yet, i use flac, which is lossless (doesn't throw away any quality) & also FOSS.

[tim042849]

Re: .wav to .mp3 utilities recommended.

This is all brand new to me.... I found that I could use k3b to rip tracks from the
CD to a local directory and then just copy the tracks as ogg files to /media/disk/
with MC.
-and so far as it seems, I could even create directories on the device
(USB media player).
Then I tried a CD - "Pure Frosting" by the Presidents of the United States of America -
which I had purchased used thru Amazon. And this is a whole different ball game.
It plays on a Walkman, linux doesn't recognize it, as a device, but Amarok can
recognize and play the tracks. I put it on a windows box and explorer shows
that they appear to be movie files (to windoze anyway). It looks like I got slipped
a "so-called" bonus disk. I wonder if audacity on windows could extract the
files?
thanks
Tim

[andybleaden]

Re: .wav to .mp3 utilities recommended.

Hi I have always used Soundkonvertor with wav to mp3 files

Had a few problems with it after I upgraded to gutsy gibbon and had to redifine my repositories to make sure I could get all the plugins I needed but it does work very well in my experience.