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

[Anthony Boynes]

Josef Lowder wrote:
> .
> 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
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>> 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?
>
>
>   
To install, this should work: urpmi lame

If that does not work, you can check to see if its in your default
repositories: urpmq lame