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steve_waters

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2006-02-20

Posts: 60

Import Cd's in m4a format?

Does anyone know how to import CD's in m4a format, I know I can play them but I don't know how to make them.

I share alot of music between my Linux box and Mac box and I like the format better than mp3.

Thanks in advance guys and girls

lessthanjake

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From: Norway

Registered: 2005-11-09

Posts: 319

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Re: Import Cd's in m4a format?

sound-juicer and gstreamer pipe:
audio/x-raw-int,rate=44100,channels=2 ! faac ! ffmux_mp4

When that is said, why !!! Is not m4a apples evil foramt ??  (.ogg)

steve_waters

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2006-02-20

Posts: 60

Re: Import Cd's in m4a format?

I like .ogg but iTunes wont see it so and m4a craps on mp3 from what I have read so here I am with the m4a format.

Ta

iphitus

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2004-10-09

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Re: Import Cd's in m4a format?

m4a is also known as AAC, try playing with grip, sound juicer, and whatever KDE uses to rip CD's, one of them ought to have an option to output as AAC/m4a.

If none of them do, you could always rip them to wav, and then encode it to aac yourself, with 'faac' afaik.

James

steve_waters

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2006-02-20

Posts: 60

Re: Import Cd's in m4a format?

Playing is fine both Amarok and Rythmbox play them and can read the tags.

I kind of cheated a bit I just ripped them with the apple and then copied them across to the linux laptop.