* If you're on a Mac, brew install gstreamer-tools or utils or something like that, as well as the good, bad and ugly plugins. All of this should be version 1.0 -- you need gst-inspect-1.0 and gst-launch-1.0 * Look at the properties you can tweak on the encoder with: gst-inspect-1.0 lamemp3enc * You can do the encoding using: gst-launch-1.0 filesrc location=path/to/infile ! \ decodebin \ lampemp3enc quality=2.0 \ id3v2mux \ filesink location=path/to/outfile