[LAU] Convert from WMA to ... ?

[Kevin Cosgrove]

On 31 July 2007 at 18:43, Paul Davis <paul at linuxaudiosystems.com> wrote:

> > > > 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.

True.  Writing to WAV first can't help that tho.  Where WMA can be 
played, then there's no need to convert.  Where I don't have a WMA 
player, then converting is better than no audio at all.  Hmm, maybe
I should check out FLAC for this.  Thanks....

 
--
Kevin