m4a->mp3 help

[Juan Kawada]

Jonas, thanks for the script

I used

find ~/Music -iname "*.m4a" -print

and I got a huge output of filenames, but what now? I'm trying to add them
to the queue in soundKonverter, but that doesn't look like it'll work. Is
there another program that would let me do this?

or, what if instead of "-print" I used a command to just convert the file,
would that work? Also what program would let me do that from the command
line, and what command would I use?

On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 12:09 PM, Jonas Norlander <jonorland at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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 but it's outdated and some changes need to be made to it before it will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!
> > --
>
> Hi!
>
> I use this find command in one of my scripts i use to "manage" my
> music archive. It will find all music files based on it's extension.
>
> find "$SEARCHDIR" -type f \( -iname "*.mp3" -o -iname "*.wma" -o
> -iname "*.flac" -o -iname "*.ogg" -o -iname "*.mpc" -o -iname "*.ac3"
> -o -iname "*.wav" -o -iname "*.acc" -o -iname "*.mp4" -o -iname
> "*.m4a" \) -exec basename '{}' \;
>
> If you want to find all music files except mp3 files you can change it
> to something like this.
>
> find "$SEARCHDIR" -type f \(  \! -iname "*.mp3" -a -iname "*.wma" -o
> -iname "*.flac" -o -iname "*.ogg" -o -iname "*.mpc" -o -iname "*.ac3"
> -o -iname "*.wav" -o -iname "*.acc" -o -iname "*.mp4" -o -iname
> "*.m4a" \) -print
>
> Then pipe it to some program that do the converting.
>
> Good Luck
>
> / Jonas
>
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