will amarok play .wav files? or how to convert to mp3?

[Josef Lowder]

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Thanks to all three who have responded.
But I'm still a little stuck.  See below. 

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On Mon, 1 Oct 2007 22:51, der.hans wrote
> amarok should play the wav file.

Regrettably, it does not, although the wav file does play 
on the xp partition of my laptop, so I think the file is okay.
 
> Are you planning on only using this on your computer and not the mp3
> player? If so, I suggest converting to flac or vorbis rather than 
> mp3. Both are free and open formats as well as arguably being much better.

While I am eager to learn about both flac and vorbis, 
I do need to convert to mp3s so I can copy the files
onto my wife's mp3 player. 
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So, when I tried to find and download 'lame' (as Matt and Ben 
both suggested), I came to another obstacle in trying to figure 
out where to find 'lame' to download and which version to get?

At rpm.pbone.net, I found a long list of different mandrake/mandriva 
variants, and can't figure out which one to download for the version 
of mandriva that I have on this computer.  uname identifies it thus: 

Linux localhost 2.6.12-12mdk #1 Tue Sep 13 10:46:25 CEST 2005 i686 AMD
Athlon(TM) XP 2600+ unknown GNU/Linux

Here's the list of mdk options to try to choose from: 

Mandrake Other 
plf.zarb.org/plf/mandrake/cooker/free/debug/x86_64/libquicktime-debug-1.0.0-1plf2008.0.x86_64.rpm
Mandrake Other 
plf.zarb.org/plf/mandrake/cooker/free/debug/i586/libquicktime-debug-1.0.0-1plf2008.0.i586.rpm
Mandriva 2007 
plf.zarb.org/plf/mandrake/2007.1/free/release/debug/x86_64/libquicktime-debug-0.9.10-2plf2007.1.x86_64.rpm
Mandriva 2007 
plf.zarb.org/plf/mandrake/2007.1/free/release/debug/i586/libquicktime-debug-0.9.10-2plf2007.1.i586.rpm
Mandrake 9.X 
plf.zarb.org/plf/mandrake/free/9.0/i586/libmp3lame0-devel-3.93.1-2plf.i586.rpm
Mandrake 9.X 
www.mde.djura.org/9.1/RPMS/plf/libmp3lame0-devel-3.93.1-2plf.i586.rpm
Mandrake Other 
ftp.sourceforge.net/pub/sourceforge/x/xa/xawdecode/libmp3lame0-devel-3.93.1-1mdk.i586.rpm
Mandrake 9.X 
www.mde.djura.org/9.0/RPMS/plf/libmp3lame0-devel-3.93-0.20021107.1plf.i586.rpm
Mandrake 8.X 
plf.zarb.org/plf/mandrake/free/8.2/i586/libmp3lame0-devel-3.93-0.20020827.1plf.i586.rpm
Mandrake 8.X 
plf.zarb.org/plf/mandrake/free/8.1/i586/libmp3lame0-devel-3.91-1plf.i586.rpm
Mandriva 2007 
plf.zarb.org/plf/mandrake/2007.1/free/release/binary/i586/liblame0-devel-3.97-2plf2007.1.i586.rpm
Mandrake Other 
plf.zarb.org/plf/mandrake/cooker/free/binary/i586/liblame0-devel-3.97-2plf2007.1.i586.rpm
Mandriva 2007 
plf.zarb.org/plf/mandrake/2007.0/free/release/binary/i586/liblame0-devel-3.97-1plf2007.0.i586.rpm
PCLinuxOS 
www.pclinuxos.com/apt/pclinuxos/2007/RPMS.main/liblame0-devel-3.97-1pclos2007.i586.rpm
Mandriva 2006 
plf.zarb.org/plf/mandrake/free/2006.0/i586/liblame0-devel-3.97-0.b2.0.1.20060plf.i586.rpm
Mandrake Other 
ftp.sourceforge.net/pub/sourceforge/x/xa/xawdecode/liblame0-devel-3.97-0.b2.0.1.20060mdk.i586.rpm
Mandrake 10.X 
plf.zarb.org/plf/mandrake/free/10.2/i586/liblame0-devel-3.97-0.b2.0.1.102plf.i586.rpm
Mandrake 10.X 
plf.zarb.org/plf/mandrake/free/10.1/i586/liblame0-devel-3.97-0.b2.0.1.101plf.i586.rpm
Mandrake 9.X 
plf.zarb.org/plf/mandrake/free/9.2/i586/liblame0-devel-3.97-0.b.0.1.92plf.i586.rpm
Mandrake 9.X 
plf.zarb.org/plf/mandrake/free/9.1/i586/liblame0-devel-3.97-0.b.0.1.91plf.i586.rpm
Mandrake 9.X 
plf.zarb.org/plf/mandrake/free/9.0/i586/liblame0-devel-3.97-0.b.0.1.90plf.i586.rpm
Mandriva 2006 
ftp.mandrivauser.de/rpm/GPL/2006/RPMS/liblame0-devel-3.97-0.b.0.1.206mud.i686.rpm
Mandrake 10.X 
plf.zarb.org/plf/mandrake/free/10.0/i586/liblame0-devel-3.97-0.b.0.1.100plf.i586.rpm
Mandrake 10.X 
www.mde.djura.org/10.1/RPMS/liblame0-devel-3.96.1-3.mdk10.1.thac.i586.rpm
Mandrake Other 
ftp.sourceforge.net/pub/sourceforge/x/xa/xawdecode/liblame0-devel-3.96.1-1mdk.i586.rpm
Mandrake Other 
ftp.sourceforge.net/pub/sourceforge/x/xa/xawdecode/liblame0-devel-3.96-1mdk.i586.rpm
Mandrake Other 
ftp.sourceforge.net/pub/sourceforge/x/xa/xawdecode/liblame0-devel-3.95.1-1mdk.i586.rpm
Mandrake Other 
plf.zarb.org/plf/mandrake/cooker/free/binary/x86_64/lib64lame0-devel-3.97-2plf2007.1.x86_64.rpm
Mandriva 2007 
plf.zarb.org/plf/mandrake/2007.1/free/release/binary/x86_64/lib64lame0-devel-3.97-2plf2007.1.x86_64.rpm
Mandriva 2007 
plf.zarb.org/plf/mandrake/2007.0/free/release/binary/x86_64/lib64lame0-devel-3.97-1plf2007.0.x86_64.rpm
Mandriva 2006 
plf.zarb.org/plf/mandrake/free/2006.0/x86_64/lib64lame0-devel-3.97-0.b2.0.1.20060plf.x86_64.rpm
Mandrake 10.X 
plf.zarb.org/plf/mandrake/free/10.2/x86_64/lib64lame0-devel-3.96.1-1plf.x86_64.rpm
Mandrake 10.X 
plf.zarb.org/plf/mandrake/free/10.1/x86_64/lib64lame0-devel-3.96.1-1plf.x86_64.rpm