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Title: voice recorder convertor
Post by: Richie London on 10 October 2011, 19:33:13

anyone know of a decent free sound convertor. i need to convert 2ga to mp3 or wma if possible.

Title: Re: voice recorder convertor
Post by: Marks DTM Calib on 10 October 2011, 19:44:24

You wont find anything truely legal for mp3 encoding as the mp3 royalty is based on encoding (rather than decoding)

Title: Re: voice recorder convertor
Post by: aaronjb on 10 October 2011, 19:56:01

Quote from: Marks DTM Calib on 10 October 2011, 19:44:24

You wont find anything truely legal for mp3 encoding as the mp3 royalty is based on encoding (rather than decoding)

How come the LAME project wasn't shut down long, long ago, then? - http://lame.sourceforge.net/

Title: Re: voice recorder convertor
Post by: Marks DTM Calib on 10 October 2011, 20:05:16

Quite simple, its only available as source code so not functional. Its when its compiled and used that the royalty becomes payable. They state very carefuly that it is for educational purposes only.

The MP3 rights are owned by the Fraunhofer institue and they charged based on encoder use.

Title: Re: voice recorder convertor
Post by: Marks DTM Calib on 10 October 2011, 20:08:02

There you go:

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The LAME developers state that, since their code is only released in source code form, it should only be considered as an educational description of an MP3 encoder, and thus does not infringe any patent by itself when released as source code only. At the same time, they advise users to obtain a patent license for any relevant technologies that LAME may implement before including a compiled version of the encoder in a product.[3] Some software is released using this strategy: companies use the LAME library, but obtain patent licenses.

Title: Re: voice recorder convertor
Post by: Richie London on 10 October 2011, 20:25:05

thanks. I've transferred it to my sister phone now. was a bit easier . :y

Title: Re: voice recorder convertor
Post by: zirk on 11 October 2011, 13:09:44

Im fairly sure I have a stand alone Sony Ericsson Program that will do that (a few hard drives ago), seem to remember it would pretty much convert most audio formats to all as long as you had the right codecs installed.

Cant remember if it was free or one of those 30 day jobbies, but worked really well for what I was trying to do, I'll try and dig it out if its still needed.

Chris.

Title: Re: voice recorder convertor
Post by: Martin_1962 on 11 October 2011, 14:19:09

Reminds me I need to install all the Creative stuff on the childrens computer, and it needs a new PSU as a DVD drive failure took it out.

Lots of software includes MP3 encoding.

Title: Re: voice recorder convertor
Post by: Gaffers on 11 October 2011, 18:21:19

Try download.com. there is usually something for everything on there and either free or as near as possible

Title: Re: voice recorder convertor
Post by: Richie London on 11 October 2011, 18:51:39

Thanks for the replies. all sorted out now. Didn't need the voice recordings. complaint been name and warning letter se.t out to next door neighbour. if problem persists they will bring round note monitoring equipment which will lead to her tenancy being terminated. :y