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azerty

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[SOLVED] WMA to MP3?

I'm sure this question has been asked a several times in this forum, but using the search I couldn't find anything useful.

I have some .wma files on my HDD, how can I convert them into mp3 or Ogg/Vorbis?

Same question for .wmv and .flv files, how can I convert them into Ogg/Theora

Thanks in advance.

Last edited by azerty (2007-08-29 12:25:35)

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Ramses de Norre

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Re: [SOLVED] WMA to MP3?

This might be useful (although I didn't used it myself so I'm not sure it works).

bones

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Re: [SOLVED] WMA to MP3?

Not sure about the video files but for audio you can use 'audio-convert'. Use it all the time to convert mp3's to ogg. Just do a pacman -S audio-convert.

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skottish

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Re: [SOLVED] WMA to MP3?

I personally prefer FFMPEG for this kind of thing, but I would recommend Mencoder for the simple reason that there's tons of good documentation. This is a good place to start:

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Mencoder_I … tion_Guide

droog

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Re: [SOLVED] WMA to MP3?

This might be useful (although I didn't used it myself so I'm not sure it works).

I've used that script a few times and it works fine, I couldn't hear any difference in sound quality after i converted the wma's to mp3's either.

dolby

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Re: [SOLVED] WMA to MP3?

converting one lossy format to another is totally pointless. just delete them and get em on mp3s if u can

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azerty

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Re: [SOLVED] WMA to MP3?

converting one lossy format to another is totally pointless. just delete them and get em on mp3s if u can

Right. I re-ripped this file from CD to mp3 directly. After that I used Audacity to load the mp3 file and export it into Ogg/Vorbis.

For the videos I also used Audacity. I simply started the video using vlc and made a recording of the audio stream using Audacity, after that I exported the stream as MP3 and Ogg/Vorbis.

Thanks for your help.

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stonecrest

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Re: [SOLVED] WMA to MP3?

converting one lossy format to another is totally pointless. just delete them and get em on mp3s if u can

Right. I re-ripped this file from CD to mp3 directly. After that I used Audacity to load the mp3 file and export it into Ogg/Vorbis.

Heh, what? You said "right", which indicates that you understand or agree with what dolby said, but you still converted from one lossy format to another.

If you have the CD, just rip to ogg vorbis directly.

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azerty

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Re: [SOLVED] WMA to MP3?

Yes I agreed with Dolby.

But sadly the ripper I am using only supports cda into MP3 ripping.
No Ogg/Vorbis support at all.

I appreciate Ogg/Vorbis because its free software, but actually only a few devices can handle ogg files - So I am forced to use mp3.

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shining

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Re: [SOLVED] WMA to MP3?

Yes I agreed with Dolby.

But sadly the ripper I am using only supports cda into MP3 ripping.
No Ogg/Vorbis support at all.

Then use another one ?

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azerty

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Re: [SOLVED] WMA to MP3?

Could you recommend me some please?

I really don't know that much about audio related stuff, so help is welcome..

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shining

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Re: [SOLVED] WMA to MP3?

Could you recommend me some please?

I think I used abcde last time.
It can encode to at least mp3, ogg and flac, it should support tags for all of  these.

http://lly.org/~rcw/abcde/page/
http://www.hispalinux.es/~data/abcde.php

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stonecrest

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Re: [SOLVED] WMA to MP3?

I'd recommend asunder, it's a dead simple ripper that can encode to ogg or mp3.

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dolby

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Re: [SOLVED] WMA to MP3?

abcde is what comes closer to exact audio copy in linux imho. also rubyripper which is in aur is decent but it rips each track at least twice for secure ripping and error checking

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