Multimedia :: A great MP3 encoder

The "lame" encoder, and its brother "notlame" encoder, produce very high quality MP3 files.

A binary tarball that works "out-of-the-box" with DSL 0.9.x is available on the
NotLame site:

http://www.eleceng.adelaide.edu.au/Personal/csanders/not_lame/

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Under Stable release 0.96.1 (the latest at this writing) find:
Red Hat Linux 9 and SuSE 9
"Pentium II+: RPM | .TAR.GZ"

Select the TAR.GZ and save to your hard drive (200K).

The following kind of presumes a HD install:

Become root
$ sudo su
Go to local bin directory
# cd /usr/local/bin
Untar the archive
# tar xvzf ~dsl/notlame-3.96.1.tar.gz
Link the binary into /usr/local/bin
# ln -s notlame notlame-3.96.1/notlame
If you want to also access the program as "lame"
# ln -s notlame lame

That's it.

HTML-based documentation is in
/usr/local/bin/notlame-3.96.1/documentation/

This thing makes awesome MP3's.

Regards,
Arne

Cool.

Roll it up into a nice tar.gz with all the paths (/opt, /home, etc) set up and submit it to Ke4nt to go in the extension area!

hmmm....
I'd originally put lame into the cdparanoia extension, but after some research it seems that mp3 is one of those patent-encumbered thingies, which may pose a legal problem as a redistributed application. Besides, Ogg kicks mp3's scrawny butt.

..and I don't want to hear anything about my patent flippy-floppiness. :angry:

True ogg kicks mp3 up one side and down the other, and thankfully, more and more players, both software and hardware are suporting it. (Most notably newer Rio players and iRiver's entire line)

But mp3 is still more widely known, and since the guys who made lame had no access to the code for the mp3 spec, it should be okay.

You forgot to mention Mikshaws patent
flippy-floppiness.
Sorry.
Couldn't help myself.
But seriously, "I don't want to launch a mp3 v Ogg/Vorbis
war", I ask merely out of interest- what's the advantages of Ogg?
I had a short snuffle through it a while ago, didn't see any file size
advantage, and stuck with mp3 when I found mp3gain-
a normalizer I can run under Linux.I had the impression that it is
very difficult to normalize Ogg files without converting to wav
first, and that sounds kinda messy.
But maybe there are other compelling advantages to Ogg ...

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