[linux-audio-user] how to un-ipod some m4a songs.

[Peder Hedlund]

On Tue, 11 Apr 2006, Brian Dunn wrote:

> paul wisehart wrote:
>
> >On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 07:49:59AM -0500, Brian Dunn wrote:
> >
> >
> >>#!/bin/bash
> >>for i in *.m4a; do
> >>       faad -o - "$i" | lame -m s - -o "${i%m4a}mp3"
> >>done
> >>

> i wonder if this can be blamed on the use of a pipe? that's beyond me.
> I always thought pipes ment cleverness and where as to linux as apple
> pie is to the USA.  shall i loose faith in ye ole pipe?

 I ran your commandline on one of my m4a and it sounded great with
 faad2 2.1-cvs20051104.02 and lame 3.96.1

 One note though: when using Pauls script faad is hardcoded to /usr/bin/faad.
 Perhaps you have another (buggy) faad in your path that's used instead.

 Try running faad (without a /usr/bin path) on some song and listen to
 the .wav . I bet that's hissy too.

 - Peder