[linux-audio-user] Converting from / to MPEG-4 audio files

Kai Vehmanen kai.vehmanen at wakkanet.fi
Sat Jul 17 16:11:06 EDT 2004


Sorry, wrong link in the previous message, the correct file is:

http://ecasound.seul.org/download/snapshots/ecasound-2.3.4-pre20040714.tar.gz

On Sat, 17 Jul 2004, Kai Vehmanen wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, Dylan wrote:
> 
> > I've got a bunch of files in MPEG-4 format (x.m4a) - is there any 
> > software to convert them to either mp3 or (preferably) ogg or flac 
> > files?
> 
> Install latest Ecasound snapshot from:
>   
>   http://ecasound.seul.org/download/snapshots/ecasound-2.3.4-pre20040709.tar.gz
> 
> Then install FAAD2 from:
>   
>   http://www.audiocoding.com/faac.php
> 
> Optionally install mpg123, FLAC and vorbis-tools (probably you already 
> have these).
> 
> And then you can just do:
> 
> sh> ecaconvert .wav *.m4a 
> sh> ecaconvert .mp3 *.m4a 
> sh> ecaconvert .ogg *.m4a 
> sh> ecaconvert .mp3 *.m4a 
> 
> ... and it'll convert all the m4a files. If you want to change the
> encoding parameters, edit your ~/.ecasound/ecasoundrc (see ecasoundrc(5)
> man page for more info).
> 
> -- 
>  http://www.eca.cx
>  Audio software for Linux!
> 






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