mp3 encoding in debian

[mis]

I can rip them using grip with cdparanoia. I am also ousing that as my mp3 encoder. I am able to use the rip feature and it does copy it to my hard drive as /home/missy/mp3s/various_artists-the_matrix_soundtrack.m3u but it plays with no sound. It did create /home/missy/mp3/various_artists/the_matrix_soundtrack but that is empty. I tried this as a user and as root.I really want to get some of my tunes on disk so any assistance is appreciated.

Mis

[debiandude]

Since the mp3 encoding format is proprietary they can't legally provide you with deb's without paying royalities to the creater of the mp3 compression format. Try a search on google for lame debs, its a mp3 compressor. I would give you a link but I don't have one off hand.

[demian]

Grip has lots of configuration options and my bet is that it just burries your mp3s somewhere where you can't find them. So from the beginning. Have you an mp3 encoder installed? The default debian install doesn't install one for you due to copyright issues I suppose. If not go get (http://www.mp3dev.org/mp3/) lame. It's by far the best encoder out there and it works nicely with grip. Then in the configuration menu in grip there's a tab called MP3 where you can select the encoder and also the locations where your mp3s go. For me this field looks like:

MP3 file format: /data/mp3/%a/%d/%n.mp3

This results in the encoded files being written to /data/mp3/<artist>/<album>/<song>.mp3
Have a look at that field and check where it puts your files.
Also, you are aware, that the *.m3u files are just playlists, right? You can check that file (more <file>.m3u) and see where the files should be stored according to this list. It might be that they are stored with relative paths and then the list gets messed up when it's moved to a different location.

Hope this helps.

[mis]

Originally posted by debiandude:
Since the mp3 encoding format is proprietary they can't legally provide you with deb's without paying royalities to the creater of the mp3 compression format. Try a search on google for lame debs, its a mp3 compressor. I would give you a link but I don't have one off hand.

I went there and d/l the lame deb but how do I install it from a file with apt-get? I tried dpkg -i lame.deb but it reutrned errors. Does not find with apt-get install lame.

Thanks

[demian]

Usually it would be dpkg -i ./<filename>.deb (The ./ to make sure you're installing the right file.) In this case I found it amazingly easy to install from source. Just get the latest stable release (it's this one (ftp://lame.sourceforge.net/pub/lame/src/lame3.70.tar.gz)). Unpack it with tar zxfv lame3.70.tar.gz. cd to lame3.70 and just type make. This gives you an executable file lame you can copy to ~/bin/ for instance and then you make grip point to that executable (again in Config/MP3). That's it.

[debiandude]

Download it here: http://hive.me.gu.edu.au/not_lame/lame_3.70-1_i386.deb

then do as root:
dpkg -i lame_3.70-1_i386.deb

You should be good :-)

[mis]

Originally posted by debiandude:
<STRONG>Download it here: http://hive.me.gu.edu.au/not_lame/lame_3.70-1_i386.deb

then do as root:
dpkg -i lame_3.70-1_i386.deb

You should be good :-)</STRONG>

Got dependency errors about libc6 and libdb2. Had no luck finding the libdb2. So I am going to try and get a older version of lame this aftenoon to see if that fixes it. Thanks for the help.

Mis

[mis]

This is kicking my ***. I go to this site and get lame...
http://hive.me.gu.edu.au/not_lame/lame_3.70-1_i386.deb

I do dpkg -i lame_3.70-1_i386.deb and I get dependency errors for libc6 which I can find but depends on libdb2.7.7-4 which I can't find anywhere. So off to get the tarfile I go. I find it and do tar zxfv lame3.70.tar.gz and it tells me it is not in gzip format.

I am starting to take these things personally. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks,
Mis

[debiandude]

Are you in an testing/stable/unstable environment. I think the pacakges are in unstable, so unless you are in unstable it wont work.

[SubPar]

3.70? Ewwww...

The more recent beta versions are much better than the stable version. I recommend you get 3.88 (ftp://lame.sourceforge.net/pub/lame/src/lame3.88beta.tar.gz) instead.

[mis]

Originally posted by SubPar:
<STRONG>3.70? Ewwww...

The more recent beta versions are much better than the stable version. I recommend you get 3.88 (ftp://lame.sourceforge.net/pub/lame/src/lame3.88beta.tar.gz) instead.</STRONG>


This got it. No errors or nothing, thanks a million. Ripped about 50 last night. God this is fun. Sooner or later I am going to have to do something productive though instead of playing. Not tonight though, too many cds to go through. Thanks again,

Mis