Re: Creating MP3 files

[David Wright]

On Tue 15 Oct 2019 at 00:57:13 (+0200), Martin Tarenskeen wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Oct 2019, Lisa C Lewis wrote:
> 
> > It appears that LilyPond only creates MIDI output.  Given that I
> > need to share the audio with other people who may not have MIDI
> > players, is there a means of generating MP3 files?  If not, what
> > do folks recommend for converting MIDI to MP3?  I've looked
> > through the documentation, but if it's in there I missed it.
> 
> I usually use Timidity to create a WAV and then Lame to convert to MP3
> (commandline)

You can avoid creating a WAV file by piping the output from timidity
straight into lame (- indicates standard output/input):

$ timidity … -o - input.midi | lame … - output.mp3

I only use WAV files when I concatenate several input files and/or
compand the audio, both using sox. (Companding is useful where the
mp3 file will be played in noisy environments.)

Cheers,
David.