lame converts music-CD/wav-file to mp3? how?

[Rob]

Hi,

What's a not too complicated way of converting music CD's to mp3 files?

So far I failed using lame: I could create wav files and play them with x11amp.
The mp3 output of lame, however, is a sound-less mp3 file.
Here is the output from 'lame a.wav a.mp3':

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LAME version 3.93 MMX  (http://www.mp3dev.org/)
CPU features: i387, MMX (ASM used), SIMD
Using polyphase lowpass  filter, transition band: 15115 Hz - 15648 Hz
Encoding a.wav to a.mp3
Encoding as 44.1 kHz 128 kbps j-stereo MPEG-1 Layer III (11x) qval=2
     Frame          |  CPU time/estim | REAL time/estim | play/CPU |    ETA
  23016/23019 (100%)|    2:34/    2:34|    3:16/    3:16|   3.8807x|    0:00
average: 128.0 kbps   LR: 1381 (5.999%)   MS: 21638 (94.00%)

Writing LAME Tag...done
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Using x11amp mp3 player, the output file has nothing but silence and a scratchy
'blurp' every now and then.

Any idea what's going wrong here?

Thanks,
Rob.