From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 15 05:11:19 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C40B21065674 for ; Sun, 15 Mar 2009 05:11:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from aristotle.thought.org (ns1.thought.org [209.180.213.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C3848FC1E for ; Sun, 15 Mar 2009 05:11:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by aristotle.thought.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n2F5CGuY086859; Sat, 14 Mar 2009 22:12:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Sat, 14 Mar 2009 22:11:15 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 22:11:15 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Wojciech Puchar Message-ID: <20090315051114.GC28705@thought.org> References: <20090313191520.GA14233@thought.org> <20090313202226.GA47453@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <20090314030558.GB25027@thought.org> <20090314072602.GA75036@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <20090315035101.GA28705@thought.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 22 years of service to the Unix community. X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=3.6 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on aristotle.thought.org Cc: Roland Smith , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: best archiver? (for music) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 05:11:20 -0000 On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 05:18:06AM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > 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 :) That's the idea: take telephone/voice @ what? 4kbps? -- it was something very narrow bandwidth so the phone companies could squueze more speech into each wire. Anyway, given 4k or whatever bits/sec, built in a single chip into each new phone to compress and uncompress. And up the quality of the speaker! -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 2.23a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php