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

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

mike bueide wrote:

>On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 03:22:27PM +0900, Rob wrote:
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>>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.
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>Check out the description for lame in ports,             
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>	"mbueide@/usr/ports/audio/lame % cat pkg-descr 
>	 LAME stands for LAME Ain't an Mp3 Encoder.    "
>
>Maybe this is the problem:). Personally, I like to use bladeenc
>in a shell.  I can have several  open at one time encoding several 
>of my cd's, albums, tapes all at once.  Nice quality too.
>
>You will find bladeenc in /usr/ports/audio also.  As for ripping,
>I use cdda2wav.  It's a little more complicated but not to bad once 
>you get used to it.
>
>... mike
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>

Well, that's the funny answer ... I thought of it, too.

But the real joke is that LAME *is* an mp3 encoder;
it wasn't when it started, but now it is...AAMOF,
recommended in the handbook. And all the tools
have CLI interfaces ...