From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: inferno (was Re: [9fans] fortune-worthy) In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 18 Dec 2003 16:34:27." From: "Russ Cox" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <50856.1071764989.1@t40.swtch.com> Message-Id: Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 11:29:49 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: aa839580-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > speaking of audio, has anyone ported any mp3 ripping s/w to plan9. > i've got a zillion cds that would be great to be able to play under > plan 9 (and one of those usb audio devices). > > i guess the question is how much venti space do i want to sacrifice... i did lame a while ago. i don't know how good the encoding actually is. http://pdos.lcs.mit.edu/~rsc/lame.tar.gz i've been using itunes to do aac ripping and am very happy with it. it's very fast and it is currently the winner for 128kB aac audio public listening tests. i trust dolby to do a good job a lot more than i trust gnu software. of course that requires a mac or windows, but it's not bad.