[ILUG] MP3

[Leo Talbot]

On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Smelly Pooh wrote:

> In reply to Leo Talbot's flatulent wordings, 
> > On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, John Hegarty wrote:
> > 
> > > I am looking for a good CD to MP3 or WAV to MP3 program for
> > > linux.Something in a nice handy RPM (i am lazy today).
> > 
> > grip is very nice...gtk gui, will interface with nearly any cd ripper or
> > mp3 encoder. It defaults to cdparanoia (which is builtin), and BladeEnc
> > (comes seperately)
> 
> BladeEnc is overhyped and a tad crap, get gogo (forgot the URL, look it up on
> freshmeat), it's orders of matitude faster, encodes 7 times faster than track
> length on my computer at home, 28x with psycho acoustics disabled (basically
> you're waiting for it to rip more than to encode)

thanx for the info.....bit of a song and dance needed to get it to compile
properly (had to get nasm, and then patch the nas files for Enhanced 3DNow), 
but in the end it was definitely worth it. Thousands of extra CPU cycles
for my distributed.net stuff ;)

Leo
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