[PLUG-TALK] Digitizing Records on a Linux Box

[John Jason Jordan]

On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:58:29 -0800
"Andrew Becherer" <andrew at becherer.org> dijo:

> On 2/18/08, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> wrote:
> > On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 14:52:49 -0800
> > "Richard C. Steffens" <rsteff at comcast.net> dijo:
> >
> > > Rich Shepard wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Paul Mullen wrote:
> > >
> > > >> arecord is dirt simple to use. The following records in so-called "CD
> > > >> quality" to a plain WAV file, with a time limit of 45 minutes:
> > >
> > > >    OK. This is all new to me, so I'll take everyone's advice.
> > >
> > > We tried several settings, when converting from wav to mp3, and found
> > > that we could not tell the difference between full CD quality (320 kbps)
> > > and 256 kbps. I've heard folks claim that 192, or 128 kpbs are good
> > > enough. Your ear mileage will vary, depending on the kind of music you
> > > listen to, and probably your ears, too. For us, listening primarily to
> > > classical music, 192 kbps was not as good as 256.
> >
> > I have gotten perfect MP3s from lame with the following:
> >
> > lame --vbr-new -B 320 /home/jjj/cdda.wav /home/jjj/happyfunfile.mp3
> 
> Variable Bit Rate (VBR) is great but one caveat, if your digital audio
> player was manufactured before 2006 be sure it supports VBR. Almost
> all new players support VBR but many older players only support
> Constant Bit Rate (CBR).

I was using that to convert my CD collection to MP3s. I ripped the CD
to .WAV with cdparanoia, and the .WAV to MP3 with lame. I don't
understand why one would use a digital audio player as the source to
create MP3s.