Re: [PLUG] converting music files

Jeff Abrahamson <jeff@purple.com> · Mon, 17 Jan 2005 18:41:08 -0500

On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 05:24:40PM -0500, Art Alexion wrote:
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> First, thanks to Sean Finney for recommending abcde -- love it.
> 
> Now, I am looking for a tool -- doesn't matter whether or not gui -- for 
> converting between music formats.  Mostly, I want to convert flac files 
> to wave for burning to CD (no cd-r drive on my Linux machine, and Nero, 
> on win machine, doesn't support flac).
> 
> The free (as in beer) windows program, dbpowerAMP Music Converter, is 
> very nice, but I want to try doing it in Linux with open source (as in 
> speech) software.

I presume you've checked the flac program itself for this option:

    jeff@asterix:jeff $ apt-cache show flac
    Package: flac
    Priority: optional
    Section: sound
    Installed-Size: 4116
    Maintainer: Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>
    Architecture: i386
    Version: 1.1.0-11
    Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4), libflac4, libogg0 (>= 1.1.0), liboggflac1
    Filename: pool/main/f/flac/flac_1.1.0-11_i386.deb
    Size: 514810
    MD5sum: efd3c9b06d56996da57bc7c38ed461ae
    Description: Free Lossless Audio Codec - command line tools
     FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec. Grossly oversimplified, FLAC is
     similar to MP3, but lossless.  The FLAC project consists of:
     .
      * The stream format
      * libFLAC, which implements a reference encoder, stream decoder, and file
	decoder
      * flac, which is a command-line wrapper around libFLAC to encode and decode
	.flac files
      * Input plugins for various music players (Winamp, XMMS, and more in the
	works)
     .
     This package contains the command-line tool, flac

    jeff@asterix:jeff $

Can you get rezound to do this?

    jeff@asterix:jeff $ apt-cache show rezound
    Package: rezound
    Priority: optional
    Section: sound
    Installed-Size: 4304
    Maintainer: Guenter Geiger (Debian/GNU) <geiger@debian.org>
    Architecture: i386
    Version: 0.11.1beta-2
    Depends: xfs, fftw2 | fftw2-double, fftw2 | fftw2-double (>= 2.1.3-16), libasound2 (>> 1.0.5), libaudiofile0 (>= 0.2.3-4), libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4), libflac4, libfox1.0 (>= 1.0.42-1), libgcc1 (>= 1:3.4.1-3), libjack0.80.0-0 (>= 0.99.0), libjpeg62, libogg0 (>= 1.1.0), libpng12-0 (>= 1.2.7), libsoundtouch1 (>= 1.2.1), libstdc++5 (>= 1:3.3.4-1), libtiff4, libvorbis0a (>= 1.0.1), libvorbisenc2 (>= 1.0.1), libvorbisfile3 (>= 1.0.1), libx11-6 | xlibs (>> 4.1.0), libxext6 | xlibs (>> 4.1.0), xlibmesa-gl | libgl1, xlibmesa-glu | libglu1, zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.1)
    Recommends: cdrdao
    Filename: pool/main/r/rezound/rezound_0.11.1beta-2_i386.deb
    Size: 1388924
    MD5sum: a05357ab7c7c635d10076315952e6472
    Description: Audio file editor
     ReZound is an advanced audio file editor for the GNU/Linux platform. It
     supports the JACK audio server and the OSS sound API. It can import several
     audio file formats such Ogg/Vorbis, mp3, standard wav, FLAC and exports in
     its own file format (.rez). You can use ReZound to burn your audio files
     directly to CD. ReZound has unlimited Undo. It supports the LADSPA effect
     plugin standard and has several builtin effects.

    jeff@asterix:jeff $

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 Jeff

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