[ubuntu-uk] Audio Conversion: WAV to WMA

[Dave Morley]

On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 12:39 +0100, Nigel Verity wrote:
> Hi Guys
> 
> I'm a bit of an audiophile, and have a large collection of music
> stored in WAV format to preserve the sound quality. Clearly it's not
> possible to copy many of these huge files to a portable player, so
> they need to be compressed. After much experimentation I've concluded
> that OGG and WMA are both better formats for sound quality than MP3 at
> a given bit rate. The trouble is that neither of my portable players
> will play OGG, so it has to be WMA.
> 
> Using the command "ffmpeg -i input.wav -ab 128k output.wma" I get a
> WMA file which will sound great on Linux using players such as VLC,
> Exaile and Rhythmbox. Unfortunately on both my portable players I get
> "File Error". I've even tried playing files converted this way on XP
> using WMP, and got similar results.
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions on an ffmpeg parameter that will
> solve the problem, or know of an alternative Linux app that will
> convert the files correctly?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Nige
What media players do you have.

There are more and more on the market now that support ogg but you need
to first install an official firmware update.

Sansa, Cowan, Samsung and a lot of non-branded can do it.
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