[LAU] Convert from WMA to ... ?

[Paul Davis]

On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 00:03 +0200, Florian Schmidt wrote:
> On Tuesday 31 July 2007, Kevin Cosgrove wrote:
> > On 21 July 2007 at 9:54, Thorsten Wilms <t_w_ at freenet.de> wrote:
> > > On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 12:01:22AM -0700, Kevin Cosgrove wrote:
> > > > I have a WMA file, yes only one, that I can play with Amarok.
> > > > But, I want to convert it to OGG or WAV.  How can I do that?
> > >
> > > If mplayer ca play it, this might work:
> > > mplayer -ao pcm input.wma -ao pcm:file=output.wav
> > >
> > > (at least it does for mp3)
> >
> > Is there anyway for mplayer to write OGG instead of WAV?  

even if it could, you don't want to trancode from one lossy,
perceptually-based compression technique to another. the result is
awful.

--p