[PLUG] Convert .wav to .mp3 in Slackware 14.2

Nat Taylor bioborg at gmail.com
Wed Feb 27 05:31:09 UTC 2019


This is good for FLAC: https://github.com/Bklyn/etree-scripts/

On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 8:41 PM King Beowulf <kingbeowulf at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2/25/19 11:40 AM, Dick Steffens wrote:
> > I am ripping some CDs and converting the .wav files to .mp3. I can do
> > this with the following in Ubuntu 18.04:
> >
> > for file in *.wav; do ffmpeg -i "${file}"  -acodec libmp3lame -ab 220k
> > "${file/.wav/.mp3}"; done
> >
> > When I run that in Slackware 14.2 I get the error message:
> >
> > Unknown encoder 'libmp3lame'
> >
> > I have installed slackpkgs for ffmpeg and lame. I'm guessing that the
> > codec provided by the slackpkg has a different name. How do I figure
> > that out? Or is there something else I'm missing here?
> >
>
> Dick
>
> Once you have the WAV files, you can use lame directly to convert:
>
> lame -q 2 --abr 220 file.wav file.mp3
>
> for average bitrate of 220k
>
> q n selects the acoustic algorithm to improve quality (5 is default).
>
> see 'man lame' for more settings as well as CBR and VBR bitrate parameters.
>
> -Ed
>
> PS: use flac.  mp3 quality sucks donkey balls.
>
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