[plug] BLocking MP3s

[Leon Brooks]

Mark Saxon wrote:

> Is there a reason why?

Yes, it costs them too many bytes. They should simply charge a per-byte 
fee for MP3s but probably don't know how to do the accounting. I'm not 
sure that it's legal to block access to material that is not illegal.

> I'm looking for console based mp3 to wav conversion but its a little
> difficult to tackle without access to any url with mp3 in it.

You will find URLs that really are MP3s but are named .RPM or something 
else weird. I don't know where because I don't indulge in that kind of 
stuff, but you could try http://oth.net/ and see what comes up.

Also, jam an audio CD into your drive and type ``cdparanoia 1-'' to get 
audio files (have 800MB+ free on your default partition), then use 
cdda2wav to enWAV them, and something like notlame to compress them to 
MP3 format. Some encoders will accept .cdda (raw CD audio) files directly.

To save a lot of expermimentation, the command that you want is:

     mpg123 -w outputfile.wav inputfile.mp3

To do this en masse:

     for x in *.mp3; do mpg123 -w $(basename $x .mp3).wav $x; done

> "Its got mp3 in the address.

> We've had to stop access to anything with mp3."

You could also hunt for OggVorbis files (.ogg), although I'm sure 
OmniNet will eventually get around to blocking them as well.