From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jan 19 03:04:54 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA21303 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Tue, 19 Jan 1999 03:04:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from DegNet.de (degnet.de [194.95.214.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA21297 for ; Tue, 19 Jan 1999 03:04:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from malte.lance@gmx.net) Received: from neuron.webmore.prv (GateWay [192.168.168.1]) by DegNet.de (8.8.8/8.8.8/Debian/GNU) with ESMTP id MAA03896; Tue, 19 Jan 1999 12:03:48 +0100 Received: from neuron.webmore.prv (neuron.webmore.prv "Malte Lance") by neuron.webmore.prv (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA10016; Tue, 19 Jan 1999 10:33:07 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <199901190933.KAA10016@neuron.webmore.prv> Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 10:33:05 +0100 (CET) From: Malte Lance Reply-To: malte.lance@gmx.net Subject: Re: Car Mp3 Player To: zach@uffdaonline.net cc: kelly@plutotech.com, netmonger@genesis.ispace.com, brownicm@prokyon.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19990112040614.A6692@znh.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 12 Jan, Zach Heilig wrote: > On Mon, Jan 11, 1999 at 07:31:50PM -0700, Sean Kelly wrote: >> But in my home, yes. The machine room (well, machine closet is more >> accurate), has a rack with my main fileserver in it, which recently got >> a sound card installed into it. I've been using "tosha" (in the ports >> collection) to "rip" the data off audio CDs and saving them to disk. >> I'm using "sox" to convert the raw PCM data into .wav format. And I'm >> using the 8hz MP3 encoder (see http://www.8hz.com) to encode them. 8hz >> provides a FreeBSD binary of their encoder free of charge. > > FWIW, I've noticed that stuff encoded with 8hz doesn't always sound quite > right. It's very subtile, but can become annoying at times. There is another > free mp3 encoder at ' http://bladeenc.home.ml.org ', with a BSDi binary (not > sure if there is a FreeBSD one there or not, I haven't looked for a few > months). This one has far better sound to my ears. > Just after pressing "Send" ... blablabla ... the old story bladeenc is available as FreeBSD & BSD-OS static linked binary and as FreeBSD-Alpha binary. Malte. -- Malte Lance. --- composed with TkRat To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message