ripping audio CD to mp3 gives silent file

[Ian Smith]

On Wed, 16 Jul 2014 09:38:45 +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote:
 > El día Wednesday, July 16, 2014 a las 03:00:58PM +0800, Erich Dollansky escribió:
 > Hi,
 > 
 > On Wed, 16 Jul 2014 08:40:56 +0200
 > Matthias Apitz <guru at unixarea.de> wrote:
 > 
 > > I do:
 > > 
 > > # cdda2wav -D2,0,0 -t 1 - | lame - Track1.mp3
 > > 
 > write first the .wav file, test it and convert it then to mp3.

 > Thanks for this hint. Already the .wav file is silent, also in a
 > Windows media player the created .wav file is silent.

Well, lame gave a faithful rendering, then :)

But unless you're just listening through your laptop speakers, but 
rather through headphones, earbuds or a stereo, the default 128k at q3 
is pretty crappy.  For any music we care about, such as that streamed 
overnight from our local community radio station, we get best results 
from lame -hV2, or -hV0 for the very best .. that's variable bitrate, 
quality 2 (or 0), which gives average bitrates around ~192kbps (or 
~210k) with 256k and some 320k frames in the busier sections.

cheers, Ian