Changing to Ubuntu

roryf · June 2007

As I don't play many games any more, I'm considering changing from XP to using Ubuntu. However, I've ripped all my mp3s at lossless quality, and was wondering how I can either:

a) Convert them all to lossless ogg for use with Ubuntu, and somehow manage to rip any future music to lossless quality ogg aswell.
OR
b) Use a program with Ubuntu that is easy to use, and will allow me to play my lossless mp3s as they are, and rip any future music to lossless mp3 aswell.

Stuff · June 2007

My mate uses razor lame and something else but Im not sure if this is lossless if this helps

A little bit of pain never hurt anyone

whyamihere · June 2007

All the media players will play your MP3s, as long as you install the codecs. Sound Juicer will rip in MP3 for you.

roryf · June 2007

And it will do it lossless? Can you let me know what codecs I need to install, or will Ubuntu manage that itself? I'm going to go to Linux this weekend.

Jonny · June 2007

Does lossless mp3 even exist?

roryf · June 2007

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Format: Windows Media Audio Lossless

Uses about 206 to 411 MB per CD (470 to 940 kbps)

Mathmatically Lossless
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So, yes, according to the ripping options in WMP, it does.

whyamihere · June 2007

It does CD quality, not sure whether that's lossless or not though.

roryf · June 2007

After looking at the Sound Juicer website, it doesn't tell me whether it can rip at lossless quality or not, can someone confirm whether it does/doesn't?

Also, what codecs do I actually need in order to be able to play lossless mp3s?

Big Red S · June 2007

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Format: Windows Media Audio Lossless

Uses about 206 to 411 MB per CD (470 to 940 kbps)

Mathmatically Lossless
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So, yes, according to the ripping options in WMP, it does.
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But WMA isn't MP3. It's closer to Vorbis than MP3, isn't it?

For future reference, especially if you're going to start asking Linuxy questions, don't be wrong. If you ask about mp3 players, that's what you'll get advice on - things that talk in mp3. Not things that do ogg or aac or wma or real. It's much better to be ambiguously correct than precisely wrong.

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Big Red S · June 2007

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by roryf

After looking at the Sound Juicer website, it doesn't tell me whether it can rip at lossless quality or not, can someone confirm whether it does/doesn't?
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Yeah. It'll rip at lossless quality. Ogg Vorbis is lossless, free beer and freedom, so it's employed on everything.
Ripping to WMA probably won't happen on a Linux box without you writing the app to do it, since there's no real reason to.
Mp3 might
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Also, what codecs do I actually need in order to be able to play lossless mp3s?
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If they're lossless, they're not Mp3 so far as I know. I thought the fundamental algorithm was lossy by nature?
If they're WMAs, you'll be able to get codecs for whatever backend you use. Check mplayerhq.hu for mplayer/xine codecs.

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Jonny · June 2007

Just had a look, nice looking piece of software. Gets all the tags perfectly, presumably from CDDB or wherever.

In the preferences menu, you get the options of flac (lossless) or ogg (lossy, but generally better than mp3). Obviously no mp3 as it isn't open source or whatever, I'm not sure. However, help menu says this. Nothing Google won't tell you...

As for codecs and crap (whyamihere/BRS would probably rape me for this) I use EasyUbuntu. I'm just not good enough with Linux yet to really do that kinda thing properly, works fine though!

Big Red S · June 2007

I don't particularly care what you use on your computer...

Are you OK with getting Mp3s to work, or was that a request for help?

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roryf · June 2007

Okay thanks and sorry for having the wrong format. So, the only question I have remaining, is:

Is there a program that will convert my lossless WMAs with a variable bit rate, to flac?

It's not _that_ important, I just like to have all my audio files in the same format, or near as possible.

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