To use mp3Hd in Ubuntu

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Mp3HD is a hybrid (lossy and lossless in one file) format designed by Fraunhofer


It has no native player in Linux but can can played through Wine with the Fraunhofer player and Winamp with plugin found on their site
It plays lossy in all players apart from the fraunhofer player and winamp with plugin where it plays lossless and is therefore unique


1. To download also zipped and attached Make sure lame is installed on your system for the lossy part


2. Then open it to your home folder; then need to move it to /usr/bin and make executable this way

sudo mv mp3hdEncoder mp3hdDecoder /usr/bin

cd /usr/bin

sudo chmod +x mp3hdEncoder mp3hdDecoder

3.
run:

mp3hdEncoder

and accept agreement important!

4. run

mp3hdEncoder

to make sure all is fine and to see options

a good setting is this

mp3hdEncoder -br 320000 -if test.wav -of test.mp3

and for bulk

 for f in *.wav; do mp3hdEncoder -br 320000   -if "$f" -of "${f%.wav}.mp3"; done

Gives you a 320kbps lossy and a lossless version (usually in the 900kbps range)


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To decode

 for f in *.mp3; do mp3hdDecoder -if "$f" -of "${f%.mp3}.wav"; done

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Then to the players


the fraunhofer player is on the site as is the winamp plugin


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To rip directly to mp3hd you can use Rubyripper with this line of code for the other box

mp3hdEncoder  -br 320000 -if "%i" -of "%o".mp3 - -Title "%t" -Artist "%a" -Album "%b" -Track "%n" -Year "%y" -Genre "%g""]mp3hdEncoder  -br 320000 -if "%i" -of "%o".mp3 - -Title "%t" -Artist "%a" -Album "%b" -Track "%n" -Year "%y" -Genre "%g"

More info here


or with grip