Intro and a few questions

[John L Fjellstad]

Chris Gilland <chrisandrachel at carolina.rr.com> writes:

> 2.  My next question is, has anyone had any experience with abcde?  If
> so, basicly the deal is, that I looked in /etc/abcde.conf but I cannot
> find the part of the file that I need to either modify or uncomment in
> order to allow the program to encode into mp3.  I do have the
> gstreamer0.10-plugin-bad and the gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly codecs.  So
> I know that I should, at the very least have a decoder, if not an
> encoder, although, yeah, I know, a decoder isn't really going to help in
> this case since I'm trying to encode from CD.  I tried using Audio
> Juicer, which may I add, I love, except that I'm only in the format box
> under preferences, seeing flack, lossless, or some other form, can't
> recall exactly, but I assure you that it isn't mp3, nor is it vorbis.
> It's actually ripping by default in vorbis, which I don't have a problem
> with per say, but some times it is nice to have a regular mp3 file.

If you have lame installed, abcde will encode to mp3 using the -o option
(ie. abcde -o mp3). The variable OUTPUTTYPE is the default output type
that abcde will encode to if you don't specify the -o option.

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John L. Fjellstad
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