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Cc: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: best archiver? (for music)
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> 	listened-to (kttsd) the man lame.  Then surfed around; then came
> 	back to the man page and read the several examples.  So: the idea
> 	is that lame ["just"] converts WAV files to mp3.  There is a

as every good unix tool - it does exactly what is supposed to do.

nobody forbids you to make your script that do what you want with lame and 
say cdda2wav

> 	Given the availability of compression these days, it makes me
> 	wonder why telephone conversations still sound so 'tinny'.  But
> 	then, that's another matter.
>
with right configured speex codec phone talks sounds actually better than 
uncompressed :)