I rip all my old CDs as MP3s now.\u00c2\u00a0 I used to rip as Ogg Vorbis, both for the higher quality, and because Ogg isn’t a patent-encumbered format, but there are just too many music applications (both software and embedded systems, such as the Netgear MP-101 wireless music streamers I picked up cheap to scatter around the house) that don’t understand Ogg, so I gave up.\u00c2\u00a0 MP3 it is.<\/p>\n
Now, I’m trying to put together a simple script to merge an MP3 playlist into a single MP3.\u00c2\u00a0 Sox should do the trick … but it doesn’t come with built-in MP3 support (for obvious reasons).\u00c2\u00a0 Here’s what I did to build MP3 support into Sox — many thanks to a good post by Michael Walma on the Ubuntu Forums<\/a>.<\/p>\n First, make sure you have what you’ll need.\u00c2\u00a0 LibLAME is the library for encoding MP3s — your specific version may vary from what’s below (use Synaptic Pkg Mgr to check what’s available with a search on “lame” if in doubt).\u00c2\u00a0 Be sure that you have universe, multiverse and restricted enabled in your package sources ( Switch to where you’re going to build it (e.g., Unpack the source and switch to the source directory (your version is likely to vary):<\/p>\n Now you need to enable LAME support:<\/p>\n And comment out the line that reads:<\/p>\n Build it:<\/p>\n Back up to the parent directory ( And, now, you should be able to confirm that you have support with:<\/p>\n Success!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I rip all my old CDs as MP3s now.\u00c2\u00a0 I used to rip as Ogg Vorbis, both for the higher quality, and because Ogg isn’t a patent-encumbered format, but there are just too many music applications (both software and embedded systems, such as the Netgear MP-101 wireless music streamers I picked up cheap to scatter … Continue reading “Building MP3 support into Sox”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/eggblog.invertedegg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/eggblog.invertedegg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/eggblog.invertedegg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eggblog.invertedegg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eggblog.invertedegg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/eggblog.invertedegg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22,"href":"http:\/\/eggblog.invertedegg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions\/22"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/eggblog.invertedegg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eggblog.invertedegg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eggblog.invertedegg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\/etc\/apt\/sources.list<\/code>), as anything MP3-related is going to come from the non-standard locations.<\/p>\nsudo apt-get install sox liblame0 liblame-dev<\/pre>\n
sudo apt-get build-dep sox<\/pre>\n
cd \/usr\/local\/src<\/code>).<\/p>\nsudo apt-get source sox<\/pre>\n
sudo dpkg-source -x sox_14.0.0-5.dsc<\/pre>\n
cd sox-14.0.0<\/pre>\n
sudo vi debian\/rules<\/pre>\n
DEB_CONFIGURE_EXTRA_FLAGS := --disable-lame<\/pre>\n
sudo dpkg-buildpackage -b<\/pre>\n
cd ..<\/code>) and install the newly-built packages.\u00c2\u00a0 For me, only new Sox packages were in the directory, so I just swept them up together.\u00c2\u00a0 Otherwise, you’d need to do them one by one, or with a filter such as *sox*.deb<\/code>:<\/p>\nsudo dpkg -i *.deb<\/pre>\n
sox -h<\/pre>\n