Re: wav to mp3 script

On Sun, 2011-11-20 at 09:09 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Sunday, November 20, 2011 09:01:19 AM Chris did opine:
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> > On Sun, 2011-11-20 at 07:01 -0500, James Francis wrote:
> > > And where might we find it, should we ever need to do the same?
> > > Thanks,
> > > James
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> > > Sent from my iPod
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> > > On Nov 19, 2011, at 11:44 PM, Chris <[email protected]> wrote=
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> > > > Please disregard my previous request, I found a tiny script using
> > > > google
> > > > (which I should have done in the first place) that will batch
> > > > convert all wav files in a folder to mp3s.
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> > I should have included the link, guess I was getting way too tired:
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> > http://linuxpoison.blogspot.com/2008/02/script-to-convert-wav-to-mp3.=
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> > You do need LAME installed for it to work.
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> Does this return something pleasant to listen to?
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> Because the various audio compression schemes all throw away some data,=
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> rarely does it match, I've found that going to mp3 from ogg (or vice-ve=
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> Cheers, Gene

It sound pretty good to me Gene even with my tinitus. If you wish I can
send you a sample after it's converted. Would be about a 5-6Mb file.

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