iTune files

Matthew Flaschen matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu
Mon Mar 12 03:35:49 UTC 2007


Chris wrote:
> ac wrote:
>> Chris wrote:
>>> Hey again
>>>
>>> A little update for ya - All is working really well. My converting of
>>> ripped CD's to mp3 is near complete. I was able to convert the mp3 to
>>> ogg (as pointed out in previous threads) and on the advice, the
>>> remaining CD's are being ripped to ogg.
>>>
>>> There IS a difference! Anyways, I have several DVD's for my iTune files.
>>> When I HAD WindersXP - I used it only to buy my music and of course, rip
>>> my CD's to iTunes (m4a I think).
>>>
>>> Now - is there a play that will either allow me yo play those m4a files
>> I see that m4a files play in amarok 1.4.3 (using kde 3.5.2) in kubuntu 
>> 6.10
>> I am likely to have some codecs installed - I used automatix I think. 
>> Although some people dont like it because they like more visibility of 
>> installed stuff.
>>
>> hth
> 
> I use Amarok also. Yes, I can play the m4a (for those that don't know -
> m4a are the file you you add to iTunes via some other process - IE: rip
> from CD. Whereas the m4p are the AAC files you purchase from iTunes).

You can probably convert them to ogg using the program ffmpeg2theora (it
also converts to vorbis); you can install it from the repositories.  Try
a command like:

find ~/MyMusic -name "*.mp4" -execdir ffmpeg2theora "{}" ";"

Matt Flaschen




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