[wellylug] Converting WMA to MP3

Fred Cox fred.cox at terra.com.br
Thu Sep 14 02:22:14 NZST 2006


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Steve Macdonald wrote:
> Jonathan Harker wrote:
>> Steve Macdonald wrote:
>>  
>>> I am finding I am having to go to a windows computer to convert my wma
>>> files to mp3 (I made the mistake of not converting them all to mp3
>>> before getting rid of windows completely and now I am stuck with
>>> thousands of wma files needing to be converted.
>>>
>>> I have tried Amarok using the transkoda? scrift but the problem here is
>>> that it does not copy the id3 tags or file names over. Can anyone advise
>>> me of a program for idiots that will work with kubuntu.
>>>     
>>
>> Try soundKonverter:
>>    http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=29024
>>
>> There's a download link for Ubuntu dapper.
>>
>> You'll probably need ffmpeg and a bunch of other libraries: Make sure
>> you have universe sources enabled...
>>
>> Cheers, J
>>
>>
>>   
> Cheers for that it works a treat. I did have it installed via adepts
> source list but it kept crashing, I noticed the  version you gave me was
> a newer version which works so much better
> 
> 

Hi,

Follow an script that converter wma to mp3. The requeriments is: mplayer
and lame.

#!/bin/bash
wmafile=$1
wavfile=$(echo $wmafile | sed -e s/wma/wav/)
mp3file=$(echo $wmafile | sed -e s/wma/mp3/)
mplayer -ao pcm -aofile "$wavfile" "$wmafile"
lame "$wavfile" "$mp3file"
rm "$wavfile"



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