[ale] mp3 decoder for linux

[Chris Egolf]

Ken Nagorski wrote:

 > Hi there,
 >
 > Does anyone know of an mp3 decoder for linux to create .wav files? I looked
 > on freshmeat but didn't really fiond anything.


If you have mpg123 and sox installed, you can do it from the command line like so:

mpg123 -b 10000 -s track1.mp3 | sox -t raw -r 44100 -s -w -c 2 - track1.wav


I did this the other day with a bunch of mp3's I wanted to put on an audio CD 
and it worked great.



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