From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 14 05:28:11 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1946C16A4E1 for ; Fri, 14 Jul 2006 05:28:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from karl@FS.denninger.net) Received: from FS.denninger.net (wsip-70-169-168-7.pn.at.cox.net [70.169.168.7]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 504FD43D49 for ; Fri, 14 Jul 2006 05:28:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from karl@FS.denninger.net) Received: from fs.denninger.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by FS.denninger.net (8.13.3/8.13.1) with SMTP id k6E5S5VO039136 for ; Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:28:05 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from karl@FS.denninger.net) Received: from fs.denninger.net [127.0.0.1] by Spamblock-sys (LOCAL); Fri Jul 14 00:28:05 2006 Received: (from karl@localhost) by FS.denninger.net (8.13.3/8.13.1/Submit) id k6E5S59K039133; Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:28:05 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from karl) Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:28:05 -0500 From: Karl Denninger To: Brandon Cash Message-ID: <20060714052805.GA39081@FS.denninger.net> References: <20060714043346.GC44667@FS.denninger.net> <44B72900.4060607@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <44B72900.4060607@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Organization: Karl's Sushi and Packet Smashers X-Die-Spammers: Spammers cheerfully broiled for supper and served with ketchup! Cc: Karl Denninger , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question re: batch conversion of m4a files.... X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 05:28:11 -0000 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