Re: early review of RH 9 (Shrike)

Philip Wyett wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 01:41, William Hooper wrote:
> 
>>Audioslave - 7M3 - Live said:
>>
>>>Lamar Owen wrote:
>>>
>>>>On Sunday 30 March 2003 15:23, Mike A. Harris wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Sure.  But I think anyone is a fool if they don't honestly
>>>>>acknowledge what the major usage of MP3 is for.  People may deny it to
>>>>>prove their point, but then there is a reality behind all
>>>>>of that that proves otherwise.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>MP3 is used in many more venues than just piracy of copyrighted works.
>>>> Many  internet radio streams are MP3 (shoutcast and icecast both
>>>>support mp3  streaming).  RHL 9 can't play those streams.  Well,
>>>>actually, it can't play  Real streams, either; or Windows Media
>>>>streams either....
>>>>
>>>>I often receive public service announcements for the radio station in
>>>>MP3 form  via e-mail.  It's a drag to have to reboot to use Cool Edit
>>>>Pro to unrip to  wav for the automation system (which has a couple
>>>>hundred gig of wav's for  the air signal).
>>>
>>>
>>>Having an mp3 to wave program. Then converting the files to ogg format
>>>might be a decent feature to have.
>>
>>On the "Red Hat Speaks" page:
>>" Now, if you're really crazy, and want to unencode your mp3's to wav, and
>>into a format you won't get hassled by "The Man [tm]" for using, get
>>mp32ogg:
>>http://faceprint.com/software.phtml"
>>
>>Quality will suffer...
>>
>>-- 
>>William Hooper
>>
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Yes lossy to lossy will degrade quality, but if your not working with
> studio quality sound the difference a.k.a quality loss is unnoticeable.
> 
> An alternate method for the actual converting is install mpg321 for
> shrike.
> 
> http://shrike.freshrpms.net/rpm.html?id=171
> 
> Next turn the text between the // below into a shell script. Make it
> executable and then you can drop it system wide or into a directory of
> mp3 files and run. The script will convert all files (maintaining the
> filename always) from mp3 to wav deleting the mp3 files as it goes. Then
> it will ogg encode the wav files at the quality ratio specified in the
> script and delete all the wav files.
> 
> // Start of script
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> #
> # Filename: mp3_to_ogg.sh
> #
> # Author: Philip Wyett - [email protected]
> #
> 
> #
> # Convert our mp3 files back to wav
> #
> for filename in *.mp3
> do
>   filename=${filename%.mp3}
>   mpg123 -w "$filename".wav "$filename".mp3
>   rm -f "$filename".mp3
> done
> 
> #
> # Ogg encode our wav files.
> #
> for filename in *.wav
> do
>   # Default quality is 5, change below to preferred '1 - 10'.
>   oggenc -q 5 "$filename"
>   rm -f "$filename"
> done
> 
> // End of script
> 
> If you want to keep the mp3 files _do not_ run this script in a dir of
> files you wish to keep and move the files to be converted to a temp
> location first for the actual conversion process. Have fun. :)
> 
> Regards
> 
> Philip Wyett
> 

Thanks Phillip!

The script and mpg321 version worked great! It looks like the mp3s will 
be ogged, if the loss is not extremely noticable.

Jim


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