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

[Josef Lowder]

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On Mon, 1 Oct 2007, Josef Lowder wrote
> Thanks to all three who have responded.
> But I'm still a little stuck.  See below.
> 
> ---------------------------------------
> 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. 
> ---------------------------------------
> 
> 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

In a previous message, I included a very *long* list of options to try, 
of which one of the following seem the most likely:

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
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
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


Then Anthony Boynes <aboynes at msasolutions.com> wrote:
> 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 

That did not work.  urpmi lame  gave this response: 

     no package named lame

So what next?