Free mp3 encoder ubuntu software for linux

BladeEnc is a freeware MP3 encoder. It is based on the same ISO compression routines as mpegEnc, so you can expect roughly the same, or better, quality . The main difference is the appearance and speed.
BladeEnc doesnt have a nice, user-friendly interface like mpegEnc, but it is more than three times faster, and it works with several popular front-end graphical user interfaces.
BladeEncs output quality is one of those rare subjects that completely divides the world in two parts. Either you love it or you hate it, there never seems to be an opinion inbetween. Different audiophiles and mp3 experts tends to come to completely different conclusions depending on their methods and testsamples.
The reason for this is of course that BladeEnc is a very different mp3 encoder (compared to Fraunhofer, LAME etc) with a very unique approach to mp3 encoding.
In order to compress sound to an mp3 file, you need to make certain sacrifices in quality. Taking into account how we percieve sound, the mp3 encoder tries to remove the details that it believes us to be least likely to notice. How much that needs to be removed depends on the bitrate and the encoder often has the choice of doing different kinds of sacrifices.
It can remove low volume tones that are "shadowed" by high volume tones of similar frequencies, remove the high frequency part of the sound spectrum, cut down the stereo effect (so called joint stereo) and simply decrease the samplerate. What approach is the best depends on a lot of things, like the style of music and the selected bitrate.
Main features:
- Sourcecode available under the LGPL-license!
- Stereo or Mono output. Can downmix to Mono on the fly.
- Supports the following bitrates: 32, 40, 48, 56, 64, 80, 96, 112, 128, 160, 192, 224, 256 and 320 kBit/s. However, for bitrates lower than 128 kBit we seriously recommend you to use another encoder.
- Flags like Private, Original and Copyright can be set.
- Input samples can be in either 32, 44.1 or 48 kHz.
- Both 8 and 16-bit samples are supported.
- Working CRC checksum generation (since 0.80). The ISO reference code had broken CRC calculations, which has been inherited into every ISO based encoder that havent added a fix for it.
- Can be plugged directly into many popular 3rd party products, giving them integrated mp3 encoding abilities.
- Encodes chunks of data from memory to memory, no need to use files or pipes.
- Can be compiled for nearly any operating system still in use.
- Commandline based, makes it easy to include BladeEnc into BAT files and shell scripts.
- Only mp3 encoder that supports gapless encoding.
- Reads standard uncompressed WAV- and AIFF-files as well as well as RAW PCM-data.
- Batch encoding. Can encode any number of samples in a row.
- Wildcards supported. You can for example encode all WAV-files in a directory by typing *.WAV".
- Input samples can be automatically deleted after encoding.
- Large selection of graphical frontends available.
- Task priority can be set from the commandline and is by default set to LOWEST so that you still can use your computer effectively while encoding (Windows & OS/2 only).
- Full support for pipes and redirection (stdin and stdout).
- Textbased configuration file where you can change default settings.

Ubuntu Christian Edition is a free, open source operating system geared towards Christians.
The goal of Ubuntu Christian Edition is to bring the power and security of Ubuntu to Christians. Ubuntu Christian Edition is suitable for both desktop and server use. The current Ubuntu Christian Edition release supports PC (Intel x86).
Ubuntu Christian Edition includes more than 16,000 pieces of software, but the core desktop installation fits on a single CD. Ubuntu Christian Edition covers every standard desktop application from word processing and spreadsheet applications to web server software and programming tools.
Along with the standard Ubuntu applications, Ubuntu Christian Edition includes the best available Christian software. The latest release contains GnomeSword, a top of the line Bible study program for Linux based on the Sword Project. There are several modules installed with GnomeSword including Bibles, Commentaries, and Dictionaries.
Ubuntu Christian Edition also includes fully integrated web content parental controls powered by Dansguardian. A graphical tool to adjust the parental control settings has also been developed specifically for Ubuntu Christian Edition. These features are truly what sets Ubuntu Christian Edition apart.
This is a script for those who do not wish to use Ubuntu CE but would like to use the web content filtering that is available in Ubuntu CE and a script that will install the Dansguardian GUI to an Ubuntu system that is already using Dansguadian.
System requirements:
- Ubuntu distro
Packages Installed:
- Dansguardian Web Content Filtering
- Graphical tool to easily change the Dansguardian filter settings
How to run the script:
1. Download the script archive.
2. Right click on the archive and select Extract Here.
3. Double click the "install_me" file.
4. Select "Run in Terminal".
5. Enter your password when prompted.
6. Follow the onscreen prompts.
Once you have finished running the script immediately reboot your computer. Dansguardian WILL NOT function correctly until after you reboot. Your original sources.list file will be restored when the script is finished.
*Note: This is a powerful script. It will be making changes to your system and should be USED AT YOUR OWN RISK!!
**Note: You may want to make backup copies of the following files:
/usr/lib/firefox/firefox.cfg
/etc/firefox/pref/firefox.js
/etc/apt/sources.list
***Note: This script should only be used on Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft). The script has only been tested on a fresh install of Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft). Results may vary with different configuration settings.
****Note: You may see a few errors during the script regarding dansguardian and clamav. These should be ignored. Once you reboot your computer these configuration issues will be resolved.

Ubuntu is a Debian based linux distribution.

Welcome to Gutsy Gibbon a.k.a Ubuntu 7.10

POE::Component::Enc::Mp3 is a mp3 encoder wrapper.

SYNOPSIS

use POE qw(Component::Enc::Mp3);

$mp3 = POE::Component::Enc::Mp3->new($bitrate => 160);

$mp3->enc("/tmp/tst.wav");

POE::Kernel->run();

This POE component encodes raw audio files into mp3 format. It is merely a wrapper for the notlame program.

METHODS

The module provides an object oriented interface as follows:

new

Used to initialise the system and create a module instance. The following parameters are available:

alias

Indicates the name of a session to which module callbacks are posted. Default: main.

bitrate

Should be self-evident. If left unspecified, defaults to 160.

enc < file-name > [del-orig]

Encodes the given file, naming it with a .mp3 extension. An optional true value for the second parameter indicates that the original file should be deleted.

e.g. $mp3->enc("/tmp/tst.wav");

WideMP3 is a relatively simple distributed MP3 encoder. It works in a client-server fashion, with multiple servers and a client that feeds the PCM audio over a network connection to the server. The server sends back the encoded audio, which the client then writes to a file. The actual encoding is done via an external encoder, such as BladeEnc.

Installation is very simple simple.

Extract the source distribution, and compile and install as follows:

./configure
make
su
make install

Current supported platforms are:

Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 on Intel x86 and Alpha.
Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 on Intel x86
OpenBSD 2.7 on Intel x86

It should also work on FreeBSD, although this has not yet been tested. Positive and negative reports on different platforms will be appreciated, especially if accompanied by a patch to make it work.

If you want to contribute a patch, you must be willing for the patch to be released under the GNU General Public License. Patches should be in context diff format (diff -c) or unified diff format (diff -u).

Currently supported MP3 encoders:
Bladeenc 0.9x - http://bladeenc.mp3.no/
Positive and negative reports for different encoders will be appreciated, especially if accompanied by a patch to make it work.

Apache::MP3::Resample can downsample MP3/FLAC/Shorten files during streaming.

SYNOPSIS

# httpd.conf or access.conf
AddType audio/shorten .shn .SHN
AddType audio/flac .flac

Alias /apache_mp3 /usr/share/libapache-mp3-perl

< Location /songs >
SetHandler perl-script
PerlHandler Apache::MP3::Resample
PerlSetVar CacheDir /var/cache/Apache::MP3
PerlSetVar AllowDownload no
PerlSetVar SortFields Album,Track,Title,-Duration
PerlSetVar Fields Track,Title,Artist,Album,Duration,Bitrate
< /Location >

Apache::MP3::Resample subclasses Apache::MP3::Playlist to allow the user to downsample audio files before streaming them. This allows users on slower connections to stream songs. When this module is installed, a menu of bitrates is presented in the upper right-hand corner of the screen. The user can choose from one of the bitrates, or select a mode that performs no resampling. The selected bitrate is maintained in a persistent cookie so that resampling is performed whenever the user returns to the site.

This module requires a command-line MP3 encoder to resample and reencode the audio data. If not otherwise specified, Apache::MP3::Resample will try to use the Open Source Lame MP3 encoder. This utility is available at http://www.sulaco.org/mp3. Version 3.90 was used during the development of this module. Your results with other versions may vary.

When you install Lame (or the encoder of your choice), be sure to place it in a directory located in Apaches PATH so that the module can find them at run time. You may need to set the PATH environment variable during Apaches launch, or by explicitly adding a SetEnv directive to the Apache configuration file.

You should be aware that the decoding/reencoding process is CPU-intensive, and server performance may degrade as the number of simultaneous users increases.

&MP3FS is A read-only FUSE filesystem which transcodes audio formats (currently FLAC) to MP3 on the fly when opened and read. This was written to enable me to use my FLAC collection with software and/or hardware which only understands MP3. e.g. gmediaserver to a netgear MP101 mp3 player.
MP3FS is also a novel alternative to traditional mp3 encoder applications. Just use your favorite file browser to select the files you want encoded and copy them somewhere!
How it Works:
When a file is opened, the decoder and encoder are initialised and the file metadata is read. At this time the final filesize can be determined as we only support constant bitrate mp3s.
ID3v2 tags are created from the vorbis comments in the flac file. They are located at the start of the file. As such, an application scanning a directory to read tags should not cause too much of a performance hit as the actual encoder does not need to be invoked (depending on how much data the read asks for).
A special exception to this is when an application tries to read the very last block first. Many applications do this to look for an id3v1 tag (stored in the last 128 bytes of the file). When this is detected, the filesystem simply return zeros (I dont support id3v1 tags). This dramatically speeds up applications, however it could potentially lead to corrupt mp3 files if the zeros are still in kernel cache when the application comes back to read the actual audio sequentially. In my experimentation this has not happened, I always get another read for the final block.
As the file is read, it is transcoded into an internal per-file buffer. This buffer continues to grow while the file is being read until the whole file is transcoded in memory. The memory is freed only when the file is closed. This simplifies the implementation.
Seeking within a file will cause the file to be transcoded up to the seek point (if not already done). This is not usually a problem since most programs will read a file from start to finish. Future enhancements may provide true random seeking.
For build instructions see INSTALL
Usage:
mount your filesystem like this: (you will probably have to be root)
mp3fs musicdir bitrate mountpoint [-o fuse_options]
e.g.:
mp3fs /mnt/music 256 /mnt/mp3 -o allow_other,ro
Here are the original files:
dave@bender:~/mp3fs$ ls -l /mnt/music/Smashing Pumpkins/Pisces Iscariot/
total 345732
-rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 10267876 2005-06-19 18:36 01 - Soothe.flac
-rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 23512276 2005-06-19 18:36 02 - Frail And Bedazzled.flac
-rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 23332187 2005-06-19 18:36 03 - Plum.flac
-rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 26402936 2005-06-19 18:36 04 - Whir.flac
-rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 21591252 2005-06-19 18:36 05 - Blew Away.flac
-rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 16719855 2005-06-19 18:36 06 - Pissant.flac
-rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 33454889 2005-06-19 18:36 07 - Hello Kitty Kat.flac
-rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 32073747 2005-06-19 18:36 08 - Obscured.flac
-rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 17614217 2005-06-19 18:36 09 - Landslide.flac
-rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 65406696 2005-06-19 18:36 10 - Starla.flac
-rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 18651734 2005-06-19 18:36 11 - Blue.flac
-rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 25055200 2005-06-19 18:36 12 - Girl Named Sandoz.flac
-rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 28060023 2005-06-19 18:36 13 - La Dolly Vita.flac
-rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 11432008 2005-06-19 18:36 14 - Spaced.flac
And now you can use the (virtual) mp3 files from the MP3FS mountpoint:
dave@bender:~/mp3fs$ ls -l /mnt/mp3/Smashing Pumpkins/Pisces Iscariot/
total 345732
-rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 2446849 2005-06-19 18:36 01 - Soothe.mp3
-rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 3197934 2005-06-19 18:36 02 - Frail And Bedazzled.mp3
-rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 3467503 2005-06-19 18:36 03 - Plum.mp3
-rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 4003745 2005-06-19 18:36 04 - Whir.mp3
-rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 3414845 2005-06-19 18:36 05 - Blew Away.mp3
-rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 2413413 2005-06-19 18:36 06 - Pissant.mp3
-rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 4348572 2005-06-19 18:36 07 - Hello Kitty Kat.mp3
-rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 5132656 2005-06-19 18:36 08 - Obscured.mp3
-rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 3099704 2005-06-19 18:36 09 - Landslide.mp3
-rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 10542719 2005-06-19 18:36 10 - Starla.mp3
-rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 3210041 2005-06-19 18:36 11 - Blue.mp3
-rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 3449127 2005-06-19 18:36 12 - Girl Named Sandoz.mp3
-rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 4098213 2005-06-19 18:36 13 - La Dolly Vita.mp3
-rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv mythtv 2337344 2005-06-19 18:36 14 - Spaced.mp3
dave@bender:~/mp3fs$ id3info /mnt/mp3/Smashing Pumpkins/Pisces Iscariot/01 - Soothe.mp3
*** Tag information for /mnt/mp3/Smashing Pumpkins/Pisces Iscariot/01 - Soothe.mp3
=== TSSE (Software/Hardware and settings used for encoding): LAME v3.96.1
=== TIT2 (Title/songname/content description): Soothe
=== TPE1 (Lead performer(s)/Soloist(s)): Smashing Pumpkins
=== TALB (Album/Movie/Show title): Pisces Iscariot
=== TRCK (Track number/Position in set): 1
*** mp3 info
MPEG1/layer III
Bitrate: 128KBps
Frequency: 44KHz
dave@bender:~/mp3fs$ time cp /mnt/mp3/Smashing Pumpkins/Pisces Iscariot/01 - Soothe.mp3 /tmp/
real 0m12.917s
user 0m0.004s
sys 0m0.020s
dave@bender:~/mp3fs$ xmms /mnt/mp3/Smashing Pumpkins/Pisces Iscariot/*
Enhancements:
- A segfault and several memory leaks were fixed.