Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:28:05 -0500 From: Karl Denninger <karl@denninger.net> To: Brandon Cash <brandoncash@gmail.com> Cc: Karl Denninger <karl@denninger.net>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question re: batch conversion of m4a files.... Message-ID: <20060714052805.GA39081@FS.denninger.net> In-Reply-To: <44B72900.4060607@gmail.com> References: <20060714043346.GC44667@FS.denninger.net> <44B72900.4060607@gmail.com>
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That might work.... thanks - will look into it... Didn't know the faad port would do m4a files - its not in the description.... -- -- Karl Denninger (karl@denninger.net) Internet Consultant & Kids Rights Activist http://www.denninger.net My home on the net - links to everything I do! http://scubaforum.org Your UNCENSORED place to talk about DIVING! http://genesis3.blogspot.com Musings Of A Sentient Mind On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 12:17:52AM -0500, Brandon Cash wrote: > Well, I don't know of anything that does specifically that, but there is > audio/faad and audio/lame. The purpose of faad is to read in various > formats, and it can output wav. Likewise, LAME can read in wav and > output mp3. > > With this in mind, you can have faad write to stdout, and have LAME read > from stdin: > faad -o - in.m4a | lame -h -b 128 - out.mp3 > > If you wanted to put that in a script, you could just have it `sed' out > the 'm4a' in favor of 'mp3' in the file name. > > Another option would be to use multimedia/mplayer, but I'm not sure of > the syntax for that. > > Hope I could help, > -- Brandon Cash > > Karl Denninger wrote: > >Not sure this is the right list.... but..... couldn't find one that was a > >better "fit". > > > >Anyone know if there's a port (or combination of ports) that would allow > >conversion of file(s) from m4a format to mp3? > > > >M4a is a "lossless" format and is similar to what Apple's Itunes uses, but > >unprotected (no DRM embedded, so no problem with "reading" them) - I have > >a buttload of them but need them in MP3 format for a media player that > >can't > >"eat" m4a native. > > > >There are Windows "pay for" software solutions, but of course, if there are > >ports in the FreeBSD collection that can do this (either singularly or as a > >pipeline) that'd be even better.... > > > >A quick look through the ports descriptions hasn't resulted in a "Eureka!", > >so I figured I'd ask here.... perhaps someone else has faced the same > >issue... > > > >Thanks in advance! > > > >-- > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > %SPAMBLOCK-SYS: Matched [@freebsd.org+], message ok
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