Slashdot interview re: vorbis

[Brent Harding]

Just to see if it's better. It seems I can't reverse the process take an
mp3 and make a wave out of it. I've tried mpg123 myfile.mp3 | arecord -M
myfile.wav, and it plays through the speaker, not to the program.

>Hi:
>
>OK, capital M is 48khz, cd quality is 44.1khz.  Depending on your
>soundcard, you may not be able to use 48khz.  Most probably, any 48khz
>files you can infact use will probably be downsampled to 44.1khz upon
>playback, unless you've got a funky soundcard.
>
>Lame by default encodes at 128kbps stereo.  If you use the -a switch to
>downmix to mono, the default is 64kbps.
>
>Finally, you don't need to do a distupgrade necessarily to use a package
>from unstable.  In theory, it should let you know if other packages need to
>be upgraded in order for it to work.  Having said that, however, compiling
>from source is pretty straight-forward, and you might be able to grab
>binaries for stuff anyway.   What do you want to do with vorbis
>anyway?  There are binaries for oggenc (an encoder) and freeamp 2.1beta6 is
>apparently out now (according to one of the developers who wrote to me
>personally to tell me) and that should do for playing them.
>
>Geoff.
>
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