convertor ..

[Jon Hall]

Mike,

>Does anyone know of a good convertor to change .wav files to .mp3?  I'm 
> building a music list and am having to pull down the music off CD(s) as 
>.wav .. and it is happily starting to eat loads of space.

I use grip, which pulls the .wav file off the CD, then converts it to either
.mp3 or Ogg Vorbis. Some distributions do not ship the mp3 converter because
of the software patents and royalties associated with it.  Grip also does an
"auto" lookup of the track names and artists from your selection of freedb or
some other database, and uses that information as the file names.  The .wav
file is erased after it is converted to the final format, and the two operations
(ripping and conversion) are done in parallel as much as possible.

md