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LAME is a command-line encoder for producing mp3 files.

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LAME alternative for .webm and .m4a files

Lame utility is available for attaching image files as cover to mp3 audio files. However, it does seem to not work for webm and m4a formats, yielding such an error: Warning: unsupported audio format ...
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K3b CD ripping - can't change LAME settings

I'm trying to rip a CD to mp3 with VBR setting V0. In an earlier version of K3b, you could configure the LAME command string. But in version 19.12.3, that has been replaced with a screen in the LAME ...
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CD extract isn't working in Rhythmbox

All my music is in the Rhythmbox music list and can be played normally. When I insert a new CD to an external USB drive I can play the CD, eject, etc. I click on "Extract" and the whole ...
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How do I install Lame in the Asunder program?

I was trying to use Asunder but I get an error message saying that I need to have Lame installed in the path. I am just plain confused. How do I accomplish this?
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Install lame 3.100 under Xenial Xerus 16.04LTS?

For the first time in 7 years I see that there is a new, major release for the lame mp3 encoder, with lame 3.100 coming out on October 13th 2017. There is an impressive list of bugfixes which I would ...
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I'm using LAME to convert .wav files to .mp3 how I can append the passed arguments in terminal to output .mp3 name?

My LAME command presently is : lame -b 128 -m j -h -V 1 -B 256 -F *.wav file.mp3 What I want would be : in file : file.mp3 out file : file_-b_128_-m_j_-h_-V_1_-B_256_-F.mp3 Also I will be ...
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FFMPEG cant convert MP4 to MP3 | No MP3 Encoder

I'm facing the problem that I cant convert MP4 Videos to MP3 with FFMPEG. Every time I try it, I get this error: Unknown encoder 'libmp3lame' But I installed FFMPEG and LAME with the flags: --...
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How to scale lame-output of multiple .wav files to the same output volume

When I play a number of .mp3 files the volume changes significantly sometimes. What parameters should I use to scale multiple .wav files to the same output volume
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MP3 encoding problems caused by gstreamer1.0 lamemp3enc not working (for me) in Ubuntu Xenial 16.04

After a fresh install of 16.04, I am no longer able to convert sound files to MP3. It works neither in Rhythmbox, Sound-Juicer or Soundbridge nor can I use gat-launch-1.0 to create a pipeline manually ...
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How do I get Lame [closed]

I downloaded Asunder file converter but an error occurs saying I need to have Lame installed. I went to the Ubuntu Software Center but there is nothing there called Lame. It might be under a different ...
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Why does lame reduce mp3 size when scaled?

I wanted to increase the volume of an .mp3 file. This is what I did: lame --scale 4 src.mp3 dest.mp3 src.mp3 was 12.5MB whereas dest.mp3 is 4MB. The audio is much louder, but I'm worried if it ...
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How to write Album Artist ID3 tag using lame?

Lame doesn't have a command line option to record the ID3 metadata of the "Album Artist". How to do it?
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Lame compress mp3 files recursively

I want to compress my entire music collection (a copy of it, actually) using lame. So naturally, there are folders within folders and possible weird characters in file names. I used the graphical ...
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Lame - How to re-encode all 320kbps mp3 to 192kbps mp3

As per title. I have lots of MP3s in 320kbps format that I need to convert to 192kbps. Currently I'm using lame --mp3input -b 192 which creates a file of the same name but with an extra .mp3 extension....
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Bash script runs fine, but not in cron

I have a script that's supposed to record a shoutcast stream for an hour, convert it to mp3, and then save it. The script runs correctly when I run it from the terminal, but I can't seem to get it to ...
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Command for increasing the volume of mp3 with lame

I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 (mostly Unity 2D) and I want to use lame in the terminal. I had been using it as an mp3 amplifier, but I forgot the command, all I remember is: lame scale-<scale you want ...
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converting multiple files with avconv...libmp3lame0 not found [duplicate]

I have about 20 .webm files that I would like to convert to audio in the terminal. I want to do avconv -i *.webm -acodec libmp3lame0 -aq 4 *.mp3 I tried: for i in *.webm; do avconv -i "${i}" -...
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How can I compress an mp3 file?

I used to download a program in windows that used lame to compress audio of mp3 files and made them smaller in size but I don't know how to do this in Ubuntu. Does anybody know anything about this? ...
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Installation of libavcodec-extra or libmp3lame fails

I'm trying to install ffmpeg on my dedicated server running on ubuntu 10.04. I want to convert flv-videos to mp3 sound files. As I found out, I have to install libavcodec-extra-52. When I use sudo ...
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Converting mp4 to mp3

I have a video I need to convert to mp3 (from the command line - not GUI): video.mp4 I tried: ffmpeg -i -b 192 video.mp4 video.mp3 with no success. I get the following error: WARNING: library ...
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Why is my Lame install failing?

I want to install ffmpeg with mp3lame enabled following this tutorial. In step 2 an error was reported on libfaac not found, and in step 5 installing lame throwing this error. Why is this failing, and ...
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LAME Conversion Without Extension

I have a list audio file paths and extensions in a CSV file that looks like this: Path Extension ~/src/0000 .wav ~/src/0001 .aif ~/src/0002 .wav I need to run LAME on each file ...
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Using recursion with a command loop. What's the syntax?

I use the following loop to do .flac --> .mp3 transcoding: for file in *.flac; do $(flac -cd "$file" | lame --preset fast extreme - "${file%.flac}.mp3"); done The directory, of course, must contain ....
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Sound Juicer doesn't respect Lame's codec settings when ripping CDs

Using Sound Juicer I am able to rip CDs very conveniently. I would like to rip them in about 256 kbit/s variable bitrate. To accomplish this I have defined the settings for mp3 in gnome-audio-profiles-...
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