> On Mon, Oct 19, 1998 at 09:56:59AM -0400, John Ruschmeyer wrote:
> > Is it possible to do CD-Audio ripping under NetBSD/Sparc? If so, what do I
> > need?
> > 
> > I'be built Tosha from the package and while it seems to run, I am dubious
> > as to whether it actually is collecting any valid audio. Any attempts to
> > convert the 'raw' output of Tosha to either a WAV or an MP3 (under
> > Windows, MS-DOS, or NetBSD) just seems to get me a lot of screeching.
> 
> The problem with Tosha you might be hitting is that as far as I can
> tell Tosha's raw formant is in little-endian byte order (you need a -x
> with sox to convert it properly). However, the last time I made mp3's
> from rips made by Tosha, they had hiccups, so YMMV. I'd love to be
> able to rip/encode on my IPX, but I have neither a cd-rom drive nor an
> encoder. ;)

Well, that was the problem! Silly me assumed that the output would be in
host-native format (big-endian on a Sparc). So, of course, I kept getting
it backwards, even when I tried byte-swapping the output to encode on a PC.

Someone should really add this to the manpage.

Now, for the bad news. I am definately getting hiccups from Tosha also.
More preciesly, I'm getting pauses in the output. OTHO, cdd (also a
package) does not appear to support the command set of my CD-ROM
(XM-4101). Sigh...

As for an encoder, though, I followed a link from www.mp3.com to 
Fraunhofer IIS. They have a demo available of a SunOS-based encoder which
appears to run under emulation. The URL is:

	http://www.iis.fhg.de/amm/download/mp3enc/

Of course the irony in all this is that the end result is the ability
to make MP3's on a machine which is to slow to play them.

Thanks for the help...
<<<John>>>