> Arthur Pemberton wrote: > > > From my WIndows days I converted alot of my music to wma as it was > > smaller and my mp3 player supported. OSS applications seem not to > > fully support wma (for obvious reasons) most troublingly the wma meta > > data. So I would like to convert select directories of wma to mp3. I > > have mplayer playing my wmas perfectly. > > > > Please advise. > > Thank you. > > > WMA and MP3 are both lossy formats. converting from one to another tends > to distort the quality of the music. If you want to do it the right way, > record your music it in FLAC format (lossless open source format ) or > Ogg Vorbis - Lossy, better than MP3, open source format and it will play > out of the box in Fedora > > regards > Rahul > I'd rather either first look for this into the list-archives of mailing list such as: mencoder-users, transcode-users, mjpeg-users, ffmpeg-user, etc...or would ask there directly. Though, please keep in mind that those tools are mainly intended to video-audio edition & processing, so formats such as wma are absolutely marginals, since it is useless in this area generally. Man pages of THESE and other related tools -such as sox or lame- are interesting too, and it worth to have a look into them (remember it in the future if you plan further media experiments ;-), because they come plenty of explanatory examples, but I doubt they even mention that format (you can try it with its man and a pipe to grep...). The MPlayer documentation worthwhile as well: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/index.html A more specific link would be: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/menc-feat-dvd-mpeg4.html#menc-feat- dvd-mpeg4-audio If, as you said, mplayer can play that sound, you can adapt the second command line as your taste in order to obtain first a wav file that then would be converted into what you want...From this point, once you've had a .wav file, possibilities as a tools for conversion are lot of them; for example, into the third line of commands of that page it is shown how to use oggenc easily (man oggenc...) Finally, http://bulma.net/body.phtml?nIdNoticia=1744 here there are two scripts (#comments are in Spanish) to automate the process (either to mp3 or to ogg audio), also renaming files, etc...It uses mplayer to convert .wma to .wav with the "-ao pcm" option (audio output PCM), and then, for .mp3 conversion the lame tool can be used, and for .ogg the oggenc will do it. It worth to have a look to understand, although I've never had to run it...I no have .wma files! :-) Cheers, Daniel Rodríguez
