wav to mp3 converter app?

clifford227 · 02-18-2012, 10:17 AM

Hello,

I want to rip some music from audio cassette.

Im looking for an app with presets, because I dont want to go to the hassle of learning all of the LAME options.

Preferably command-line app, or GTK2

Any recommendations?

Konphine · 02-18-2012, 10:20 AM

ffmpeg and vlc are two off the top of my ehad. There are likely others.

cascade9 · 02-18-2012, 10:24 AM

Soundconverter.

http://soundconverter.org/

I'm pretty sure that its got presets. Been a while since I used it, I have done any transcoding for ages, and the last few times I did I used soundkonverter (KDE/Qt)

H_TeXMeX_H · 02-18-2012, 10:30 AM

Quote:

bash-4.1$ lame --help
LAME 64bits version 3.98.4 (http://www.mp3dev.org/)

usage: lame [options] <infile> [outfile]

<infile> and/or <outfile> can be "-", which means stdin/stdout.

RECOMMENDED:
lame -V2 input.wav output.mp3

I use the recommended listed there, it works quite well.

cascade9 · 02-19-2012, 04:28 AM

I'd rather use CBR 320 or VBR V0 (245k/sec target bitrate, normally 220-260k/sec ) over VBR V2 (190k/sec target bitrate, normally 170-210k/sec).

The files arent that much bigger, and in these days of huge HDDs and cheap MP3 players with decent storage space it makes sense IMO. Still, for some people with ancient HDDs, small portable players or those taht dotn really care to much about quality, V2 will do the job O.K..

H_TeXMeX_H · 02-19-2012, 05:21 AM

If you want quality, you don't use mp3, period. Use vorbis, aac, or best of all flac.

cascade9 · 02-19-2012, 05:36 AM

I dont touch AAC with a bargepole. Ogg vorbis is O.K. but its not really that much better than MP3, if its better at all (IMO anyway, and its very hard to compare lossy files excpet 'by ear' and that is hard to quantify) Unless you want to use -q10 (500k/sec target) and then you are better off with flac anyway....I've got flac files with a lower bitrate than 500k/sec.