m4a->mp3 help

[O. Sinclair]

Juan Kawada wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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.
> 
> 
Jumping in a bit late, here is a link to a gui-app for the purpose of 
converting m4a to mp3:
http://tinyurl.com/4mulxo
and here one to a script-based tool:
http://tinyurl.com/6f32rp

I have used them and they worked as intended for me - they convert but 
do not remove original files. Follow links for more details.

Sinclair