Just to see if it's better. It seems I can't reverse the process take an mp3 and make a wave out of it. I've tried mpg123 myfile.mp3 | arecord -M myfile.wav, and it plays through the speaker, not to the program. >Hi: > >OK, capital M is 48khz, cd quality is 44.1khz. Depending on your >soundcard, you may not be able to use 48khz. Most probably, any 48khz >files you can infact use will probably be downsampled to 44.1khz upon >playback, unless you've got a funky soundcard. > >Lame by default encodes at 128kbps stereo. If you use the -a switch to >downmix to mono, the default is 64kbps. > >Finally, you don't need to do a distupgrade necessarily to use a package >from unstable. In theory, it should let you know if other packages need to >be upgraded in order for it to work. Having said that, however, compiling >from source is pretty straight-forward, and you might be able to grab >binaries for stuff anyway. What do you want to do with vorbis >anyway? There are binaries for oggenc (an encoder) and freeamp 2.1beta6 is >apparently out now (according to one of the developers who wrote to me >personally to tell me) and that should do for playing them. > >Geoff. > > >-- >Geoff Shang <gshang10 at scu.edu.au> >ICQ number 43634701 > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > >
