Re: [TCLUG:12470] encoding MP3s

[Yaron <jethro@yaron.org>]

  Hi,

On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Timothy Wilson wrote:

> So I decided to try RipperX. Using that front-end, CDParanoia, and 
> BladeEnc (MP3 encoder), I ripped a CD successful and encoded it for MP3.
> Cool. It took a long time, however. My system is a Pentium Pro 200, 96MB
> RAM and it took a couple hours to encode the .wav files into MP3s. Is this
> normal?

A couple of hours for a whole CD on a non-top-of-the-line machine sounds
reasonable, yeah.

You might want to try lame (or notlame), it is considerably faster than
Bladeenc and claims to be same quality.

-Yaron

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