On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, Dylan wrote: > I've got a bunch of files in MPEG-4 format (x.m4a) - is there any > software to convert them to either mp3 or (preferably) ogg or flac > files? Install latest Ecasound snapshot from: http://ecasound.seul.org/download/snapshots/ecasound-2.3.4-pre20040709.tar.gz Then install FAAD2 from: http://www.audiocoding.com/faac.php Optionally install mpg123, FLAC and vorbis-tools (probably you already have these). And then you can just do: sh> ecaconvert .wav *.m4a sh> ecaconvert .mp3 *.m4a sh> ecaconvert .ogg *.m4a sh> ecaconvert .mp3 *.m4a ... and it'll convert all the m4a files. If you want to change the encoding parameters, edit your ~/.ecasound/ecasoundrc (see ecasoundrc(5) man page for more info). -- http://www.eca.cx Audio software for Linux!
