I have a Creative Zen MP3 player which I use in my car. I want to tidy up a load of CDs which have accumulated over the years before they go to the bin. They're freebies from newspapers and so aren't worth anything and have the usual half dozen decent tracks followed a dozen rubbish tracks. But I'm stuck trying to rip them to MP3. I've tried k3b but that doesn't offer MP3 as an output option. I've also installed soundkonverter (rather than soundconverter as I'm using kde for a desktop) but despite saying that it can use FFmpeg as a plugin, there is still no MP3 option. Am I doing something wrong? The system is Mandriva 2011 64 bit.
On 20 May 2012 12:41, Chris Walker <cdw_alug@the-walker-household.co.uk> wrote:
But I'm stuck trying to rip them to MP3. I've tried k3b but that doesn't offer MP3 as an output option. I've also installed soundkonverter (rather than soundconverter as I'm using kde for a desktop) but despite saying that it can use FFmpeg as a plugin, there is still no MP3 option.
Since you are using KDE: 1. open Dolphin 2. open the CD (which will mount it) 3. see a load of directories for FLAC, WAV, MP3, OGG etc. 4. Open the MP3 directory 5. Drag and drop required files to your hard drive. 6. Wait for it to rip and encode. 7. Voila! Regards, Srdjan
On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 12:41:59PM +0100, Chris Walker wrote:
But I'm stuck trying to rip them to MP3. I've tried k3b but that doesn't offer MP3 as an output option. I've also installed soundkonverter (rather than soundconverter as I'm using kde for a desktop) but despite saying that it can use FFmpeg as a plugin, there is still no MP3 option.
Am I doing something wrong?
The system is Mandriva 2011 64 bit.
mp3 is a patent encumbered format so some/many/all distros don't support encoding to mp3 out the box. It sounds like you may need to install some packages that will allow you to encode to mp3. Adam
On 20 May 2012 13:02, Adam Bower <adam@thebowery.co.uk> wrote:
On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 12:41:59PM +0100, Chris Walker wrote:
But I'm stuck trying to rip them to MP3. I've tried k3b but that doesn't offer MP3 as an output option. I've also installed soundkonverter (rather than soundconverter as I'm using kde for a desktop) but despite saying that it can use FFmpeg as a plugin, there is still no MP3 option.
Am I doing something wrong?
The system is Mandriva 2011 64 bit.
mp3 is a patent encumbered format so some/many/all distros don't support encoding to mp3 out the box. It sounds like you may need to install some packages that will allow you to encode to mp3.
Last time I used Mandriva it was still called Mandrake but the Lame encoder libraries sorted this iirc. The PLF was a good place to start http://plf.zarb.org/ but things may have changed since. Cheers, BJ
On 20/05/12 13:14, John Woodard wrote:
On 20 May 2012 13:02, Adam Bower<adam@thebowery.co.uk> wrote:
On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 12:41:59PM +0100, Chris Walker wrote:
But I'm stuck trying to rip them to MP3. I've tried k3b but that doesn't offer MP3 as an output option. I've also installed soundkonverter (rather than soundconverter as I'm using kde for a desktop) but despite saying that it can use FFmpeg as a plugin, there is still no MP3 option.
Am I doing something wrong?
The system is Mandriva 2011 64 bit.
mp3 is a patent encumbered format so some/many/all distros don't support encoding to mp3 out the box. It sounds like you may need to install some packages that will allow you to encode to mp3.
Last time I used Mandriva it was still called Mandrake but the Lame encoder libraries sorted this iirc. The PLF was a good place to start http://plf.zarb.org/ but things may have changed since.
I didn't have the PLF repos included in the list. Now that I have, I can see lame as an option. If I ran rpm -qa | grep lame, it responded with lib64lame0-3.98.4-2-plf2011.0.x86_64 But now that I've installed lame (and other stuff), it now responds with lib64lame0-3.98.4-2-plf2011.0.x86_64 gstreamer0.10-lame-0.10.17-3plf-plf2011.0.x86_64 lame-3.98.4-2-plf2011.0.x86_64 So I can now do what Srdjan suggests and simply drag and drop. Sorted! Thanks for the collective help.
On Sun, 20 May 2012 13:02:54 +0100 Adam Bower <adam@thebowery.co.uk> allegedly wrote:
On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 12:41:59PM +0100, Chris Walker wrote:
But I'm stuck trying to rip them to MP3. I've tried k3b but that doesn't offer MP3 as an output option. I've also installed soundkonverter (rather than soundconverter as I'm using kde for a desktop) but despite saying that it can use FFmpeg as a plugin, there is still no MP3 option.
Am I doing something wrong?
The system is Mandriva 2011 64 bit.
mp3 is a patent encumbered format so some/many/all distros don't support encoding to mp3 out the box. It sounds like you may need to install some packages that will allow you to encode to mp3.
And a simple search for "MP3 encoding mandriva" will get you the answer. Mick --------------------------------------------------------------------- blog: baldric.net fingerprint: E8D2 8882 F7AE DEB7 B2AA 9407 B9EA 82CC 1092 7423 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
On 20/05/12 13:44, mick wrote:
On Sun, 20 May 2012 13:02:54 +0100 Adam Bower<adam@thebowery.co.uk> allegedly wrote:
mp3 is a patent encumbered format so some/many/all distros don't support encoding to mp3 out the box. It sounds like you may need to install some packages that will allow you to encode to mp3.
And a simple search for "MP3 encoding mandriva" will get you the answer.
My searches hadn't revealed the answer but the clue is in what you wrote. I'd been searching for mandriva related items but it hadn't pointed me at the correct solution. As you should have seen by now, I have now solved the problem. As an aside, I recall you had a Nokia N900. I've just changed my car and it said it would interrogate the phone by a press on the 'Addr Book' button on the console. But it didn't. I managed to search for the correct solution to that one (linux OS on the phone of course) but again, I didn't get there straight away. I think that points to my main problem and that is one of the 'correct' search items.
On 20/05/12 13:55, Chris Walker wrote:
On 20/05/12 13:44, mick wrote:
On Sun, 20 May 2012 13:02:54 +0100 Adam Bower<adam@thebowery.co.uk> allegedly wrote:
mp3 is a patent encumbered format so some/many/all distros don't support encoding to mp3 out the box. It sounds like you may need to install some packages that will allow you to encode to mp3.
And a simple search for "MP3 encoding mandriva" will get you the answer.
My searches hadn't revealed the answer but the clue is in what you wrote. I'd been searching for mandriva related items but it hadn't pointed me at the correct solution. As you should have seen by now, I have now solved the problem.
As an aside, I recall you had a Nokia N900. I've just changed my car and it said it would interrogate the phone by a press on the 'Addr Book' button on the console. But it didn't. I managed to search for the correct solution to that one (linux OS on the phone of course) but again, I didn't get there straight away. I think that points to my main problem and that is one of the 'correct' search items.
I use K3B to rip my CDs to MP3. I needed to install LAME first. This should add MP3 (LAME) to the filetypes available in the rip dialogue. Nev Sorry sent to poster instead of list 1st time
On 20/05/12 15:28, nev young wrote:
I use K3B to rip my CDs to MP3. I needed to install LAME first. This should add MP3 (LAME) to the filetypes available in the rip dialogue.
Nev
Sorry sent to poster instead of list 1st time
My favorite was always grip (again using lame, lame is the *only* mp3 encoder to use) Unfortunately I think grip relies on loads of legacy bits of gnome and is no longer maintained.
Following on from Chris' original query, I have a related one. I have a number of radio shows as MP3 files which I want to listen to in the car. A typical show (mostly Radio 4 comedies) has a lot of talking and occasional bursts of noise (laughter). In order to hear these in the car over road noise I have to have the volume turned up very high, which of-course then results in a deafening roar if the audience laughs. The same is true of live broadcasts, of-course, but having them as MP3 files gives me an opportunity to do something about this. (I have the same problem with audio books which I like to listen to in the car on long journeys.) Any tips for how to improve this situation? Is it as simple as using some kind of automatic gain? I'm a complete novice with all things audio! -- Mark Rogers // More Solutions Ltd (Peterborough Office) // 0844 251 1450 Registered in England (0456 0902) 21 Drakes Mews, Milton Keynes, MK8 0ER
This same problem drives me insane. I use mp3gain (http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/hardy/man1/mp3gain.1.html) which has a graphical front end if you prefer, called easymp3gain (http://sourceforge.net/projects/easymp3gain/). This awesome tool can gain all your tracks to the same level. It's not perfect and it's obviously not going to completely flatten the dynamics of the song/track but will certainly set an upper limit (and raise up some of the quiter patches) to a give a more consistent level (this is what I find anyway). I use it religiously for mp3 music I have, to prevent the same problem when wearing ear phones. I don't want to turn up the current track, only to be deafened by the next. HTH, James.
On 22/05/12 12:16, James Bensley wrote:
This same problem drives me insane. I use mp3gain (http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/hardy/man1/mp3gain.1.html) which has a graphical front end if you prefer, called easymp3gain (http://sourceforge.net/projects/easymp3gain/).
This awesome tool can gain all your tracks to the same level. It's not perfect and it's obviously not going to completely flatten the dynamics of the song/track but will certainly set an upper limit (and raise up some of the quiter patches) to a give a more consistent level (this is what I find anyway).
I thought the idea of mp3gain was to put a selection of separate files at the same subjective volume level ? What it sounds like Mark needs is some dynamic compression or peak normailisation actually within the individual tracks rather than bringing all tracks to the same level...I am not sure mp3gain can do that. I thought it just twiddled with the replaygain metadata, that's a per track thing not a mid track thing and will require re-encoding the file.
On 22/05/12 19:20, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
I thought the idea of mp3gain was to put a selection of separate files at the same subjective volume level ?
Which does sound useful all the same so thanks for the pointer, but probably not what I need here.
What it sounds like Mark needs is some dynamic compression or peak normailisation actually within the individual tracks rather than bringing all tracks to the same level...I am not sure mp3gain can do that.
That is indeed what I'm after. Ideally a commandline tool (so I can script it for batch processing) - and some idea how to use it too! However, having phrases like "dynamic compression" and "peak normalisation" in my vocabulary gives me more chance with Google.... -- Mark Rogers // More Solutions Ltd (Peterborough Office) // 0844 251 1450 Registered in England (0456 0902) 21 Drakes Mews, Milton Keynes, MK8 0ER
On 23/05/12 13:10, Mark Rogers wrote:
On 22/05/12 19:20, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
I thought the idea of mp3gain was to put a selection of separate files at the same subjective volume level ?
Which does sound useful all the same so thanks for the pointer, but probably not what I need here.
What it sounds like Mark needs is some dynamic compression or peak normailisation actually within the individual tracks rather than bringing all tracks to the same level...I am not sure mp3gain can do that.
That is indeed what I'm after. Ideally a commandline tool (so I can script it for batch processing) - and some idea how to use it too!
However, having phrases like "dynamic compression" and "peak normalisation" in my vocabulary gives me more chance with Google....
I cut this from the audacity man page. It may also give you some starting points. Audacity is primarily an interactive, graphical editor, not a batch-processing tool. Whilst there is a basic batch processing tool it is experimental and incomplete. If you need to batch-process audio or do simple edits from the command line, using sox or ecasound driven by a bash script will be much more powerful than audacity. Nev
On 22/05/12 11:03, Mark Rogers wrote:
Following on from Chris' original query, I have a related one.
I have a number of radio shows as MP3 files which I want to listen to in the car. A typical show (mostly Radio 4 comedies) has a lot of talking and occasional bursts of noise (laughter).
In order to hear these in the car over road noise I have to have the volume turned up very high, which of-course then results in a deafening roar if the audience laughs. The same is true of live broadcasts, of-course, but having them as MP3 files gives me an opportunity to do something about this. (I have the same problem with audio books which I like to listen to in the car on long journeys.)
Any tips for how to improve this situation? Is it as simple as using some kind of automatic gain? I'm a complete novice with all things audio!
I find that for all things audio, audacity has an answer. It may not be obvious or easy to find but it has never failed me yet. I think you would want to some dynamic audio compression (not to be confused with file compression) and / or normalisation to increase the volume of the quiet bits and soften the loud bits. Audacity will do that. Nev
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