WMA to mp3 converter

Matt Patterson matt at v8zman.com
Tue May 10 12:00:12 UTC 2005


Awesome, I will give this a try and let you know. I have to install 
mplayer first.

Matt



c m wrote:

>>>anyone have an application or a script which is
>>>      
>>>
>>capable of doing this?
>>    
>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>Matt
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>>>
>
>tools requiring install:
>mplayer, win32 codecs, lame encoder (or your other
>encoder choice if you modify the script)
>
>Wav is created with mplayer by
>mplayer -ao pcm:file=file.wav source
>which we encode this to mp3
>
>here is an example script which uses
>mplayer and external program lame to encode a mp3
>from source material, which in your case is wma and
>ogg.
>
>if the script is called convert.sh
>example usage to convert all wma files in a directory
> would be
>
>ls -b *.wma | xargs -l convert.sh
>
>(Note: -b escapes any special shell characters in
>filenames like & or spaces)
>xargs runs script for each line in the ls command
>output or for every wma file in directory
>
>script will output for test.wma a filename of test.mp3
>
>#!/bin/bash
>
>FIFO="MYFIFO"
>PLAYER="mplayer"
>ENCODER="lame"
>PLAYER_LOC=`which $PLAYER`
>ENCODER_LOC=`which $ENCODER`
>PLAYER_OPTS="-ao pcm:file="$FIFO" -vo null -vc dummy "
>
>#add lame encoder options if needed here
>ENCODER_OPTS=""
>
>if [ $# -ne 1 ]; then
>echo "Usage: "$0" <source>"
>exit 1
>fi
>
>#assumes all your files are in the format of  name.ext
>#and we are wanting the output as name.mp3
>outname=`echo $1|cut -f1 -d"."`.mp3
>
>if [ -f ${outname} ]; then
>echo "MP3 file "${outname}" is already present.
>Exiting"
>exit 1
>fi
>
>if [ ${#PLAYER_LOC} -eq 0 ]; then
>echo "This requires "$PLAYER" be present in your
>path"
>exit 1
>fi
>
>if [ ${#ENCODER_LOC} -eq 0 ]; then
>echo "This requires "$ENCODER" be present in your
>path"
>exit 1
>fi
>
>if [ ! -f $FIFO ]; then
>mkfifo $FIFO
>else
>echo "FIFO "$FIFO" already exists. Exiting"
>exit 1
>fi
>
>$PLAYER $PLAYER_OPTS ${1} &
>$ENCODER $ENCODER_OPTS $FIFO ${outname}
>rm $FIFO
>
>
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