m4a->mp3 help

[Willy Hamra]

2008/10/11 Juan Kawada <juankawada at gmail.com>:
> As far as I know K3b won't burn any m4a's or similar codecs onto a cd. I
> would like to be able to burn anything from my music collection onto a cd,
> not just some of it.
> so is there a way to get K3b to do this?
>
> or even better, I have my music collection in /home/udyrfrykte/Music, all
> organized in folders by letter/ artist name/ album name.  I would be very
> grateful to anyone who could write me a script that will find all of my
> songs that aren't mp3s and convert them to mp3.
>  I found an old script to do this here:
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=138419
> but it's outdated and some changes need to be made to it before it will
> work.
>
> I would like this script not only for me, but for my friends that I
> convinced to use linux. It seems that main problem anyone I know has had
> converting is getting all music to play with amarok, etc.
>
> (p.s., my m4a's are all drm free)
>
> Thanks!

if you have a huge collection of files, i don't think my method would
be practical. i use a program that uses gstreamer as a backend to
convert music files from any format that is supported by gstreamer
into ogg. the program is called oggconvert. but it doesn't take
parameters from the terminal, and can only convert one file at a time.
i use it to convert files as i get them, so usually no more than 20
files at atime, and using this program is bearable. but if you're
talking about a few hundred files, this can be hell :P if i was you,
i'll be looking at gstreamer help pages, and see how it could be used.



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Willy K. Hamra
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