[plug] MP3

[Greg Mildenhall]

On Wed, 28 Jul 1999, McMeikan, Andrew wrote:
> Well I use cdparanoia and bladeenc to rip and encode and either x11amp or
> mpg123 to play.
> I am not fanatical about sound quality, but it seems to do a good job.
I thought sound quality was meant to be the one reason for using
bladeenc?? Wasn't it meant to be the best quality MP3ifier out there, at
least at some stage? Presumably that means it is also very slow, so if
you're not fanatical about sound quality, you might be able to do better.

-Greg