m4a->mp3 help

[Willy Hamra]

2008/10/11 Willy Hamra <w.hamra1987 at gmail.com>:
> 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 but it's outdated and some changes need to be made to it before it will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.
>
>

i hope these links might help
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-206452.html
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-143262.html
http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/audio_conversion_linux.html
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=82806

some of these are a bit outdated, and might require a different
version (older version) of the gstreamer package.


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Willy K. Hamra
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Co. Manager of Zeina Computers and Billy Net.