mp3 DEcoders

[dkeav]

ive found enough programs to encode wavs to mp3 to make me sick but i havnt seen the first to decode an mp3 to wav atleast one that works does anyone know where i can get just a plain decoder please and thank you

[Vlad902]

Well a good one that I know that convert LOTS of file types to mp3 and wav, I mean LOTS, that perhaps you could run under wine is eJay...

[Fryguy8]

man mpg321 shows instructions on outputting to .wav files.

[sk606]

xmms will do it. goto prefs and change the output plugin to disk writer.

[dkeav]

thanks all ill give it a try

the reason i ask is i have a huge entire cd in one mp3 file that i want to convert to wav so i can chop up and then convert to ogg

[LrngTheHardWay]

Sounds like you're going the long way around.

Googling around netted me more than 100 hits on converting mp3s to ogg.....how about:
http://oggasm.sourceforge.net/

[messed up the link]

[hlrguy]

audacity can do it easily. Open an MP3, save as ogg. You also have the perk of editing your misc, amplifying, adding everb, fade in fade out, chop it up, mix songs together, record, etc.

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

hlrguy

1.1.0 has full ogg import and export support

[Dizzybacon]

I use notlame for encoding (I find the quality very good at low bitrates) but that's not the point. Notlame does also do decoding

notlame --decode input.mp3 output.wav

Dizzy

[bwkaz]

Why don't you just re-rip the CD to ogg, and then chop up the ogg file? You will lose quality decompressing the mp3 (in other words, the wav that you get will not be the same as the wav you'd get if you re-ripped the CD), which means that the ogg encoding will throw away even more data...

Just reripping the CD, I think, would be simpler and better.

[LrngTheHardWay]

Good point which I didn't consider earlier....
Transcoding between lossy data formats is always a bad idea, and you'd hate what you hear.
You would be better off re-ripping from a PCM format.

[dkeav]

hehe first of all i dont have the cd(you should have guessed)

audacity i cant get installed
everytime i try to i have to try to install a couple thousand dependencies that half of them wont compile on my system and then the other half also require a bunch of dependencies so blah blah blah its done pissed me off so....

ogg is just something im playing around with and is not at all a necesarry step in this process so forget i said it please


what i want is mp3 to wav conversion if anyone knows how to do it with mpg123 please post the code that worked for you so i can try it

thanks for all the responses

[dkeav]

ie. will this work

mpg123 -w file.wav file.mp3

will that possibly force a wav file output???

[dkeav]

ive noticed that my mp3s sound more distored in linux is the mp3 decoder used more sensative and pickup or not ignoreing extra junk or is it just my system

[hlrguy]

Originally posted by dkeav
ive noticed that my mp3s sound more distored in linux is the mp3 decoder used more sensative and pickup or not ignoreing extra junk or is it just my system

If you are using XMMS, I have found that you need to drop the volume to MAX at 95% with no audio plugins or you will have clipping. If you are using expanded stereo and/or the preamp, mixer, drop the colume to 86-90% and this will eliminate the clipping. I am not sure this is what is causing it on yours, but that is what happens on mine.

Also, which distro/version are you using. It is easy to find the audacity RPM/Tarball for your exact distro version.

[dkeav]

oh great thanks but im gonna pass on audacity its done pissed me off i did however get Glame working i just havnt had time to play with it yet and i took care of the clipping it was my soundcard

i run mandrake 9 and the mpg123 -w file.wav file.mp3 does work to force a conversion

[sharth]

winamp right now. :)

[kien]

I already have all libs of ogg-vorbis (my XMMS can play .ogg), but when I installed audacity, it said that I need to install these libs.
What I should do next?

[dkeav]

i didnt have any luck with audacity at all really im not very impressed with it i think the authors could have done a better job

however i will recommend glame fairly easy to install and use make sure you give it plenty of swap space though

[ruwach]

dkeav,
man how did you get glame going in mandrake, i have tried everything and still can't get past all of the dependancy stuff right. i am glad you pulled it off. please help me.
salute'

[dkeav]

how are you going about it, rpm?

i dont remember if i had set up my rpm sources up to add plf and a bunch of sources so urpmi is basically like apt, or if i just went the old fashioned tar.gz way, and installed dependencies as they came up during the make

thats prolly the easier way, just grab the newest or second to newest copy of glame in tar.gz form, as you build it go to rpmfind.net and get your dependencies

or alternitavly search here for urpmi, and google, there are articles on how to add sources, google for the penguin liberation front, that site also has that information, you can basically set up urpmi with sources, then in term just type urpmi "name of program" and like apt takes care of the dependencies, its quite lovely

[ruwach]

ok, i will give it a shot.
thanks.