ot: wav to mp3 linux tool?

[Michael Whapples]

Good to know that you meant that, sometimes people seem to call all 
compressed formats mp3.

From
Michael Whapples
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> From: "Karen Lewellen" <klewellen at shellworld.net>
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> The question and the subject were worded correctly.
> I required an mp3 file.
> Karen
>
> On Wed, 11 Oct 2006, Michael Whapples wrote:
>
>> If the original question was more about wav to compressed audio, I would 
>> say
>> use ogg (vorbis), as it is open source. If the question is worded 
>> correctly,
>> and mp3 is wanted, then lame does the job.
>>
>> From
>> Michael Whapples
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>> From: "John Heim" <jheim at math.wisc.edu>
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>> Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 4:30 PM
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>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Samuel Thibault" <samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org>
>> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." 
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>> Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 11:26 AM
>> Subject: Re: ot: wav to mp3 linux tool?
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>>
>> Karen Lewellen, le Tue 10 Oct 2006 12:20:07 -0400, a écrit :
>>> Any simple Linux tool for converting .wav files to .mp3 files?
>>
>> MP3 is patented, so you'll have a hard time looking for a legal and
>> "libre" software producing them.  That said, you can google for "lame"
>> (which has a quite good codec btw).
>>
>>
>> I was just listening to the wikipedia page on mp3 a couple of days ago 
>> and
>> it said that lame is legal because the patent holder (Thompson Consumer
>> Electronics -- I think) has said it won't enforce it's patent on open 
>> source
>> projects. Plus, I doubt it would be illegal to use software that 
>> infringed
>> on someone's patent. The end-user wouldn't be expected to know about 
>> that.
>>
>> Ogg is a better format anyway.
>>
>> Another thing the wikipedia page said that was interesting is that mp3 is
>> obsolete as a technology but it has a certain momentum. But IMO, in a few
>> years, we won't be seeing so many mp3 files around.
>>
>>
>>
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