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

[Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.]

Rob wrote:

>
> 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':
>
> -----------------------------------
> 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
> -----------------------------------
>
> 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.


What does:

$plaympeg a.mp3

get you?

Kevin Kinsey