[thelist] audio files (.wav)

[Eduardo Kienetz]

On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Bob Meetin <bobm at dottedi.biz> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thanks all.
>
> I haven't gone through all the options yet, but I do have a plausible
> command-line linux solution.  After someone recommended .mp3 I googled
> "convert .wav to .mpg" and that went a long way.  Out popped a number of
> programs including 'lame' and 'sox'.  I downloaded and installed both. This
> was almost too easy.  The page describing lame gave options:
>
> % lame input.wav output.mp3
> % lame -V0 -h -b 160 --vbr-new input.wav output.mp3
>
> Original and converted files:
>
> Track1.wav - 332478834 ( 332 MB )
> Track1.w.options.mp3 - 39233264 ( 39.2 MB )
> Track1.no.options.mp3 - 30157843 ( 30.2 MB )
>
>
> For what I am doing probably no options will suffice for quality.
>  Converting to mono will be a nice plus if it saves space as well.  However,
> when I opened the 'original' file with audacity on the Linux computer it
> will appear to load and play but there is no audio; yes it looks like it is
> playing.  Makes it hard knowing where to splice it...  Later on this.

Have you tried: ffmpeg -y -i myfile.mp3 -f flv -acodec libmp3 -ab 64
-ac 1 myfile.flv
Just to see.. :)

Source: http://heardspace.sulehosting.co.za/2007/09/converting-mp3-to-flv-with-ffmpeg/

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Eduardo Bacchi Kienetz