Andy Zbikowski <andyzb at ltiflex.com> writes:

> grip is a good all around gui frontend. 
> 
> abcde is a decent console front end.
> 
> For mp3, I use lame to encode. I've switched to oggenc now though.
> 
> Use cdparanoia instead of cdda2wav.
> 
> Search the tclug archives for more, see also freshmeat and the links from
> the vorbis homepage.

Thanks for the pointers.

> Doesn't winamp use a bastardized zipfile for installing plugins/skins/etc
> now? Last time I installed winamp I seem to remember it included an ogg
> plugin. I could be wrong though. Check winamps site for the latest plugin. 

I found an ogg plugin for winamp on the ogg site, dropped it in the
plugin directory, and I can play ogg files (downloaded one to test).
Haven't tried encoding myself yet (on Linux or windows).
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