[ILUG] mp3 encoder & decoder

John P. Looney (Kate) jplooney-ilug at online.ie
Tue Jul 11 13:01:06 IST 2000


On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 12:38:45PM +0100, Martin Feeney mentioned:
> You'll have to cut your mp3 collection into 74 minute sections and burn 
> each section of files to a seperate CD.  Audio CDs are raw 44100kHz signed 
> (2s complement) 16bit shorts (motorola) with 2 channels.  cdrecord will 
> take in wav or au files so you'll have to convert your mp3s to this format 
> first.  mpg123 should do the job for you.

 Ars Technica mention[0] some plugin for WinAmp that replaces (by
guessing, I suppose) various harmonics that are lost in the MP3
compression phase.  Don't suppose anyone knows if there is a linux version
of these plugins ?

Kate

[0] Look for "MP3 audio enhancements" on http://www.arstechnica.com/

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