m4a->mp3 help

[Juan Kawada]

It turns out it was the encoder I was using. Mplayer instead of ffmpeg.
Mplayer is always very inconsistent in everything i use it for, sometimes
it'll work, sometimes it'll crash.

well my files are converting, they play, and soon I won't have any more aac
files!


On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 1:43 PM, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:

> Juan Kawada wrote:
> > @nils, I tried that in a test folder to see if it would work, and It
> > found the m4a, converted it, and put an mp3 beside the m4a of the same
> > name. problem is that the mp3 is 13 seconds of very loud static.
> > Looks like this is either a problem with the settings I chose or with
> > lame itself though. Heres my output.
> >
> > udyrfrykte at udyrfrykte-desktop:~$ find ~/Templates -iname "*.m4a" |
> > while read fn;do lame -V0 -h -b 160 --vbr-new "$fn"
> > "${fn%[mM]4[aA]}mp3";done
> > Assuming raw pcm input file
>
> Because of that last line I suppose lame can't decode m4a files. As I
> don't have any m4a files myself, I couldn't test it and I thought you had
> already verified that lame could convert your files with the command you
> posted. But I can't tell you which program you could use instead of lame
> to do the conversion. Maybe you could try the soundconverter package
> mentioned in the forum thread you posted.
>
>
> Nils
>
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