[plug] Ripping to MP3

I am the LinuxAlien linuxalien at optusnet.com.au
Sun Aug 4 15:48:51 WST 2002


I have tried ogg and like it, but I need to send it to some friends on 
macs, MP3 will be prefereable. What deb package is gogo in?
Tim
At 02:05 04/08/2002 +0800, you wrote:
>Jeff Williams wrote:
>
>>What encoder are you using? The fastest I used was gogo for mp3's, but 
>>now I use oggenc. Ogg Vorbis - better quality and no patent issues - all good.
>
>I recently ripped a CD for one of my housemates, all windows users w/o any 
>ripping software. I did it under the guest user account on my machine to 
>avoid messing with my own auto-filed mp3+ogg collection. Apparently the 
>latest debian version of grip defaults to ogg . I didn't notice when I 
>ripped the tracks except to think "wow that encoded fast" but I've just 
>got a new system so I didn't think much of it. Used smbclient to dump them 
>on Patrick's machine and off he went - then, after playing some, noticed 
>that they weren't mp3s  - the system already supported oggs. I found it 
>quite amusing, esp since he commented on the good quality :-)
>
>

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